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Food Handling Basics

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Safe food handling is always important, but particularly so in hospital and aged-care settings, where you are catering to vulnerable or sick patients who are highly susceptible to the consequences of foodborne illness or infection.

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Each year, there are an estimated 4.1 million cases of food poisoning in Australia. These cases are largely preventable. It only takes a few simple steps to reduce the risk of food poisoning. The preventative measures of food poisoning are: observing basic personal hygiene techniques, careful food preparation, storage and display.

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Vannessa Edwards
08 Sep 2023
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excellent basic training
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28 Sep 2021
Safe and correct food handling process
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Barbara Mapes
02 Jul 2021
good resource with valuable information
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Radhika Sanjel
30 Sep 2020
Proper way to handle food for clients
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11 Jul 2021
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