Food Safety for the Kitchen: Understand how bacteria affect our food & how to prevent food poisoning from taking place

by Adrian Carter

This book covers the basics on bacteria in the food environment. Concepts should as defining bacteria, how bacteria grow, what is needed to prevent the growth of bacteria are discussed.
This book also covers the most common food-poisoning bacteria, E.coli, S.aureus, Salmonella, Listeria monocytogenes, Clostridium species as well as Campylobacter. The Listeriosis outbreak in South Africa, the largest in recorded history, is covered in a bonus chapter. Food poisoning, the how's, why's and when's are also covered. This book explains how food gets contaminated and discusses the five pillars of food safety; cleaning and sanitising, personal hygiene, food storage, temperature control and the handling of foods, which covers cooking, cooling and defrosting.

123 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 8, 2018

Reviews

[Adrian Carter · Rating 5 out of 5]

Useful book

Provides a good understanding of bacteria and combines this with food safety. Very useful book for those in charge of a kitchen