mardi 24 juin 2014

Why One Should Observe Food Safety Consulting

By Elsa English


The modern society has been affected by various lifestyle diseases that are mostly resulted by the consumption of farm products that have undergone a lot of inorganic processing. This has led for call to the relevant authorities to set up measures to ensure food safety consulting is done by the growers in order to come up with more natural farm produce.

The recently practiced agriculture has aided in the rise of drug resistant pathogens in humans. This has resulted to its attack by medical society and consequently the general public. The most recent severe attack was eminent on the writings of director general of WHO whereby he put it that the drug resilient bacteria get transmitted through a food chain into the consumer.

To the moment, food has not yet attained any safe standards. However, lack of awareness to risks in unsafe food has created likelihood of much risks. The mass media has boosted the general recognition and support. The major risks are posed by the hormones, pathogens and antimicrobial as well as residues from chemicals.

Creation of safety measures like the selling of products which are naturally produced free from hormones and antibiotics have given rise to new consumer demand. This has resulted to an increased degree of distrust in farms outputs which do not contain a high quality or safety label. There has also been rise of trade barriers in the international markets for farm produces that are not at par with the health standards of importing nation.

The consumers have grown a tendency to demand for farm products that are fresher and raised naturally. This results to the increase in consumption of produce which is not processed or processed very minimally than the products which have undergone various procedures in processing prior to reaching the markets. The fresher is the produce, the more the consumer is safe from pathogens or contaminants from the raw materials.

The prevention of pathogens has not been fruitful regardless of the mandatory inspection. These pathogens are food borne and they pose great risk to human health. Taking meat as an instance, in the past, tuberculosis and brucellosis brought about clinical diseases. These could be observed on the level of farm and through meat inspection, lesion would be recognized. Toxoplasma as an example of modern pathogen can be detected through the monitoring systems.

Quality checks on control have been set to assign the quality categories to products before being set to the market place. Lack of the right ways of correcting or even upgrading of the final product, high prices are experienced on high quality products. On the other hand, the non-marketable products are cast-off. Measures on the reducing losses are brought as a result of production cost of the quality being equal.

From the above, it becomes prudent to follow up consultations of food safety in order to ensure that the health of the consumer is free from risks and also to optimize your profits by selling more natural produce. One can join seminars or pay a visit to agricultural institutes to get more knowledge on how you can grow your produce in a more organic manner.




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