Food safety associate with physical contaminants

Poorly managed physical facilities contribute contamination of food as well as physical injuries to food handlers. Physical contamination happens when any object is found in food. This can be anything from a hair to band-aids to pieces of glass from a broken light bulb.

Food safety concerns associated with physical contaminants include:
*Choking (particularly young children)
*Cuts mouth and tongue
*Broken teeth
*Damage to the gastrointestinal system

Careful attention to physical hazards that many enter the food system at any point will prevent devastating consequences to both food consumers and food handlers.

The physical contamination of food during preparation and processing can take place in many ways. Detection methods are directed at identifying physical contamination and include a number of scanning systems: metal detector, bottle scanner, x-ray system
Food safety associate with physical contaminants