Food Safety Training
Food safety training is essential to every restaurant in the world. Training your employees how to handle food safely can save lives as well as save the company millions of dollars in lawsuits. Food safety training can be found on the World Wide Web as well as through the restaurant that you are working for. Most companies require that if you are handling food products, you must undergo a safety training class in order to be certified that you know how to handle foods without contaminating them or not cooking them long enough to kill any potential bacteria's. Food safety training covers harmful organisms that can harm you or anyone else that may eat the food. It teaches you how to prevent dangerous organisms like bacillus cereus which in layman's terms is spore of bacteria that needs oxygen to grow. It can cause flu like symptoms such as vomiting with in five hours of incubation time and diarrhea within four to sixteen hours of incubation. Bacillus cereus can be commonly found in soil, milk, cereals, starches, spices, meat pies, fried rice, other dried foods and puddings. To destroy the cells and spores of this bacterium, food must be cooked over 212 degrees Fahrenheit. Salmonella is another well known bacterium that is taught how to prevent in food safety training. Salmonella is a food borne infection and can be very severe