Food handlers can contaminate food if they haven't washed their hands or aren't wearing gloves. They can also contaminate food by sneezing or coughing over it, or not wearing a hair net in some cases.
Food Handlers have a very important role in making the food free from any foodborne illnesses. Food is mostly handled by Chefs, Waiters or Servers raw or cooked before being served in your table.
Just think about if these people don't wash their hands and touch your food?
There are a lot of standards and rules to follow if you are a food handler. But that's all for the safety of the customers, the restaurant your working and your job. That's also why restaurants requires (may differ in some states) you to have a food handlers permit.
Food can be contaminated in various ways.Most commonly food is contaminated from lack of cleanliness. Germs and bacteria can be transferred from your hands or any surface to the food being handled and then to your system. Example: If you go to the bathroom and do not wash your hands things like e-coli and cholera can be transfrrred from fecal matter.
i have contaminate the food by putting my dirty hand on the food.
The food handler must identify at which stage and CCP the error may have occured.
Yes
If it gets into food yes! It is poisonous.
A person that handles food for someone.
Food Handlers, like the name suggest, are people who handles food. From the people that makes the food (chef, sous chef, etc) to the ones that deliver the food to the customer (waiters, servers, etc) they are considered a food handler.
A food handler that has discharge from the eyes should be removed from food handling. They should be employed elsewhere until the discharge has stopped.
Hepatitis a
pests contaminate food by landing on the food and leaving there waste ,if you may, like flies whenever they land they vomit, leave waste, and urine. pests also contaminate food just by carrying diseases.
through organisms which contaminate food like house fly
cross contamination
Safewayis a very popular company which offers a range of on-line courses such as Food Handler courses, food manager courses, tabc certifications.