1.3 Food Hygiene and safety

• The meaning and importance of food hygiene and safety
• Food spoilage - meaning, causes and signs
• Food poisoning - meaning, causes, signs and prevention
• Hygiene practices when handling food

• explain the importance of hygiene and safety when handling food
• differentiate between food spoilage and food poisoning when handling food
• apply hygiene practices when handling food
• adopt high hygiene standards when handling food

“Why is food spoilage and poisoning a concern when handling food?”

“How can we adopt safe habits and proper hygiene when handling food?”

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1. Food hygiene and safety
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Why food hygiene and safety matter, the difference between food spoilage and food poisoning, and the hygiene practices that keep food safe.
2. How food spoils, and how to tell in a Kenyan kitchen
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Causes and signs of food spoilage using leftover stew, milk, sukuma, maize flour and butchery meat, and how to slow spoilage down.
3. Food poisoning: germs, toxins and how they make you ill
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   How contaminated Kenyan foods cause illness even when they look fine, the signs in the person, and the prevention that actually works.
4. Personal hygiene when handling food
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Hands, nails, hair, wounds, clothing and illness - the food-handler rules that matter in a Kenyan home, school canteen or mama mboga stall.
5. A clean Kenyan kitchen: surfaces, water, pests and waste
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Kitchen hygiene around the jiko or gas cooker: clean surfaces, safe water, covering food against flies, and keeping rubbish away from the pot.
6. Store, cook and keep leftovers safe
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   The 5 C to 60 C danger zone, thorough cooking, cooling leftover Kenyan stews, dry-store maize, and reheating until piping hot.
7. Keeping raw and cooked food apart
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   How raw chicken, meat and eggs pass germs onto kachumbari, ugali and fruit, and the Kenyan-kitchen habits that stop that jump.
8. Making food hygiene a daily habit
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   A family and school kitchen standard: habits that run every time, integrity when no one is watching, and a checklist learners can keep.