Chemical Hazards

Of late traditional farming practices have given way to modern methods of farming employing synthetic fertilizers, high yielding varieties, pesticides, fungicides, weedicide, etc. in agriculture, animal husbandry, poultry and fisheries. Apart from providing food security to many countries, modern farming methods by superior yields, disease control etc., also brought in many a health hazards like pesticide residues, heavy metal residues, antibiotic & hormone residues etc. in our food chain. Some of these toxic residues also brought a variety of health risks for the consumers. Besides these toxic residues, the food also may contain certain naturally occurring toxic components produced by the food /feed organisms, like cigua toxin, paralytic shell fish toxin etc. The training on food safety will enable the particpants to process food free from these chemical hazards.

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Major food safety hazards

The Biological

Hazards

As the name suggests the biological hazards are living organisms in the food, which cause infectious disease to the consumers. They can be the unicellular organisms like the virus, the bacteria, multi cellular parasites like tape worm, etc....

The Chemical

Hazards

Of late traditional farming practices have given way to modern methods of farming employing synthetic fertilizers, high yielding varieties, pesticides, fungicides, weedicide, etc. in agriculture, animal husbandry, poultry and fisheries. ...

The Physical

Hazards

The Codex Alimentarius Commission has listed the possible physical hazards on the basis of their capacity to cause injury or even chocking of the customers (Table 14). All these items are commonly encountered in food materials handled carelessly. ...

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The licencing criteria for restaurants, Hotels and Food production units are fast changing. The standards for food business operation are also continuously improved upon. To catch up with these changes the food business operators and their personnel how to undergo proper training in most of the training modules on food safety and food processing. Hurry up to get trained please...

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MIFT

Dr. Mukundan's Institute for
Food Safety & Technoloy

MIFT is an institute offering expert training in Food Safety for all type of food production from seed production, farming, harvesting & storage of crops, Food Processing, Storage, Transportation, etc. with a view to avoid health hazards and quality problems.

Contact Info
Address

NRA 4, Narayanan Asan Road,
Ponnurunthy
Kochi Kerala, India

Phone

+91 9447289718,
+91 484 4871251

Email

mkmukundan@gmail.com
drmukundan@foodsafetyinstitute.in

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