Improving Standards of Food Hygiene (finding dental care)
No commentsBy Jack Authors
Although the last few years have seen huge advances in standards of food hygiene, there are still nearly 100,000 cases of food poisoning reported every year across the UK thats nearly 275 a day! Although many of these cases are characterised by typical symptoms like nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea, the most severe cases include organ failure and death especially in people who are already weak or vulnerable. To this extent, it is still highly important that households and businesses alike continue to work towards improving standards of food food hygiene, to ensure as few people come down with food poisoning as possible.
The most common cause of severe food poisoning is bacteria which, due to their tenacity and ability to multiply exceptionally quickly, always pose a health threat, no matter how high standards of food hygiene may appear. Just a single bacterium, for example, can multiply within a few hours into a colony capable of causing fatal food poisoning in children, the elderly, pregnant women or people who are already ill. Not all bacterial food poisoning is obvious within a few hours either; in some cases the bacteria continue to multiply inside the victims digestive system for days before illness occurs, at which point the food poisoning can be exceptionally serious.
Maintaining high standards of food hygiene is imperative if we are to avoid unnecessary deaths and illness in tens of thousands of people every year. It doesnt take radical changes to make a difference; merely ensuring all employees attend a food hygiene training course, for example, is not only a legal requirement for food businesses, but will also bolster business as the Safer Food, Better Business campaign is striving to make apparent. Within the home, some simple changes to the way we store, prepare and cook food will help keep friends and family safe especially those who are particularly vulnerable.
Remembering to store raw foods separately from cooked and prepared foods is essential to prevent cross contamination that can make food just as dangerous when cooked as when raw. Although the process of cooking, if done thoroughly and correctly, kills the bacteria present in raw food, these bacteria can easily be transferred back to the cooked food should raw food touch, or drip on, the cooked food. The same principle applies to kitchen utensils; knives and chopping boards, for example, must be washed or changed after being used with raw food, before being used for ready-to-eat food. In short, nothing used on raw foods should be used on cooked or prepared food, without first being thoroughly washed.
It should also go without saying that anybody who comes into contact with any food should remove all hand and arm jewellery and wash their hands before handling food and after handling raw food. Anti-bacterial soap is most effective in maintain standards of personal hygiene and it is essential that you wash under your nails, as this is where the majority of dirt on hands accumulates. Also remember not to dry your hands on dirty towels or dish-cloths, as this will defeat the point of washing them in the first place! People who are ill should not come into contact with food whatsoever.
When cooking food, care should be taken to ensure the food is cooked thoroughly and properly; all meat juices should run clear and there should be no pink meat inside pork or poultry. Food should always be piping the whole way through before being served and never re-heated more than once. Vulnerable people should not be given partly-cooked foods; runny eggs, for example, contain harmful salmonella bacteria that can be lethal!
By taking simple steps to further improve food hygiene, we can reduce the number of people who fall ill and die from food poisoning every year. Care in the home and provision of food hygiene training within food business is essential to help make food safer for everybody.
Highspeed Training provide a wide range of online courses, from food Food Hygiene Certificates to Health and Safety Certificates. All food handlers can satisfy their legal requirement by taking the food Food Hygiene Certificate e-learning course. The course gives learners a basic awareness of good hygiene and safety issues and meets food industry recommendations.
Creating The Brilliant Smile You Deserve
Improve Your Smile with Teeth Whitening Kits
By Gareth Hoyle
Your teeth can get stained and discoloured over the years and this can have a negative impact on your self confidence. Tea, coffee, red wine and smoking can all cause your teeth to take on yellow or brown stains and this may make you think twice before smiling. Teeth whitening kits can provide you with an easy solution to this problem and help you to regain your brilliant smile.
What are Teeth Whitening Kits?
Cosmetic dental treatments can costs hundreds of pounds and can be very time consuming. You may have to take a lot of time off work to get your teeth whitening treatment done. A good solution to this is teeth whitening kits. These are available from most major pharmacies and also online. Teeth whitening kits provides you with an easy way of improving the colour of your teeth and boosting your confidence from the comfort of your own home.
How Do Teeth Whitening Kits Work?
Teeth whitening kits are very simple to use and generally contain rubber mouth trays (moulded in an average tooth shape) and bleaching gel products. Some kit providers can offer you custom moulded mouth trays which will fit your teeth exactly. This is a good option as it will ensure an even coverage for your teeth and produce the best results.
To use the kits all you need to do is squeeze the recommended amount of bleaching agent into the trays and then place them over your teeth. These kits can vary in strength but on average you will need to leave the trays in place for around 30 minutes for the optimum effects. You will need to set aside some quiet time for carrying out home whitening treatments as you will not be able to talk, eat or drink when you are using the mouth trays.
What Bleaching Agents are used?
Home whitening kits typically include a weak solution of hydrogen peroxide or carbamide peroxide. These kits are formulated for safe home use and so are not as strong as the bleaches used by dentists. If you have very badly discoloured teeth you may need to see a dentist for more intensive whitening treatments. When you are buying home teeth whitening kits you do need to check the hydrogen peroxide or carbamide peroxide content. The recommended level of these chemicals is just 0.1%.
Using Teeth Whitening Kits at Home
Always buy teeth whitening kits from a trusted supplier with a good reputation. This will ensure that the product has been tested and is safe and effective. Before you use the bleaching agents you do need to make sure you read the manufacturers instructions carefully. Never leave the mouth trays in place for longer than instructed as this could weaken the enamel on your teeth.
Teeth whitening kits can provide you with an affordable way to brighten up your smile. You can treat discoloured teeth from the comfort of your own home without any expensive or time consuming trips to the dentist.
Colours and Cosmetics-What You Should Be Aware Of
By Constantine Lekendiros
People are weary of artificial ingredients in their foods. The thing is that most people don’t worry about all the artificial ingredients in cosmetics. It is only in recent years that cosmetics have started to carry a full list of ingredients on their packaging.
Making sense of the ingredients can be difficult for the lay person. This is particularly true for colorings, which often go under the guise of numbers rather than names.
In many countries colors in cosmetics are listed as colour index numbers. C.I. numbers are allocated by the Society of Dyers and Colourists. The scheme covers colours used in food, personal care products, cosmetics, household products and fabric dyeing. So, for example you will not normally see tartrazine listed in your lipstick ingredients, but it may be there listed as C.I. 19140. Erythrosine will be listed as C.I. 45430, and so on.
The USA uses a different system: the FD & C colors have been categorized by the American Food & Drink Administration for use in foods, drugs and cosmetics. So in this system tartrazine is FD & C yellow 5, and amaranth is FD & C red 2.
The E Number system is used by the European Community (EC). This is a system of giving code numbers to food additives, some of which are also used in cosmetics and personal care products. This system is also used in some other countries but without the E prefix, so E102 becomes simply colour 102.
All this confusion for the average consumer would not be important, but for the fact that some of these colours are known to cause problems in susceptible individuals. For example, tartrazine (also known as FD & C Yellow 5, CI 1914 and EI02) can cause migraines, itching, rhinitis and agitation in susceptible individuals. Many individuals avoid its use in food, but do not realise how extensively it is used in cosmetics, such as lipstick, and personal care products.
The big worries in terms of colours in cosmetics and personal care products are lipstick, coloured lip balms, lip gloss and lip pencils, because anyone who uses these regularly eats a fair quantity over their life time, but these colours also appear in skin cream, foundation, mascara and so on too. (Remember also that these colours can also be in ‘natural’ cosmetics and skin care products.)
Another worry is that even the ‘experts’ cannot agree on an international ’safe’ list of colours, so that a colour may be allowed in one country, but banned elsewhere. For example, quinoline yellow is allowed within the European Community and in some other countries, but is banned in Japan, Norway and the United States.
As ever, the advice is: keep yourself informed and read the label. Stay informed and make sure you check the ingredients on anything and everything you put on your skin.
For great skin care products go online and get the Lancome Trans Hydrix, the lancome aroma tonic oil as well as the Lancome Impactive and other cosmetics.
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