Food poisoning: germs, toxins and how they make you ill
Home Science · Grade 10 · about 40 minutes
How contaminated Kenyan foods cause illness even when they look fine, the signs in the person, and the prevention that actually works.
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- 7 sections of explanation, worked examples and diagrams
- 1 practice task with hints and worked answers
- A quiz that marks itself as you go
- Your progress kept across every subject you take
Other lessons in this sub-strand
- Food hygiene and safety
- How food spoils, and how to tell in a Kenyan kitchen
- Food poisoning: germs, toxins and how they make you ill
- Personal hygiene when handling food
- A clean Kenyan kitchen: surfaces, water, pests and waste
- Store, cook and keep leftovers safe
- Keeping raw and cooked food apart
- Making food hygiene a daily habit