Health Tips - Certificates/Medicals
Food Handling Tips
Listed below are steps to help prevent foodborne illness by safely handling food in the work-place:
- Always wash hands with warm, soapy water before handling food; after handling food; after using the bathroom; after blowing nose, coughing, or sneezing
- Keep nails short and clean
- Cover hands with skin abrasion or cuts with clean disposable gloves.
- Thoroughly wash with hot, soapy water all surfaces that come in contact with raw meat, poultry, fish, and eggs before moving on to the next step in food preparation.
- Cutting boards should be kept clean by washing them in hot, soapy water after each use; then rinse and air or pat dry with clean paper towels.
- Don't use the same platter and utensils that held the raw product to serve the cooked product.
- When using a food thermometer, it is important to wash the probe after each use with hot, soapy water before reinserting it into a food.
- Keep cleaning solutions, and other chemicals away from food and surfaces used for food. Food that is mishandled often leads to “food poisoning”!
