Food Safety Management

FOOD SAFETY MANAGEMENT

INTRODUCTION
Food safety management is a concept where an organization in the food chain need to
demonstrate it's the ability to control the hazard of food safety in order to ensure that food is
safe during the time of human being consumption.

AC1.1: Discuss the controls required to prevent physical and chemical
contamination of food.
■ Food contamination- it is a basically the complex subject which is pathogenic
contamination such as viruses, parasites and bacteria etc. it causes the illness of
consumers.
■ Chemical contamination- Chemical contamination is mainly found as organic and
inorganic molecules in the produced item that use day by day. It includes detergents,
plastics and petroleum etc. This toxic agents affects the food product and also increasing
the food contamination.

Cont.
■ Physical contamination- this type of contamination occur due to the physical object
that can be used in the environment. It involves metals, plastic etc.