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Food is any substance composed of carbohydrates, water, fats and proteins, which can be eaten or drunk by humans or animals for nutrition or very important aspect for life. Food products are often a target of adulteration while supply chains usually deal with perishable products that could be harmful to consumers if they are not managed properly. Economic adulteration is a long term problem affecting the food industry. Adulteration in food has been a concern since the beginning of civilization, as it not only decreases the quality of food products but also results in a number of ill effects on health. Food adulteration involves the infusion of useless, harmful, unnecessary substances to food which decreases the quality of food. The problems of adulteration makes the food items used in our daily life unsafe and unhygienic for use due to poor handling. Adulteration in food items can cause tremendous affect on health without our knowledge. If we tend to actively participate in these changes then we can bring about a healthy and non venturous future for the upcoming generations.

Food hygiene are the conditions and measures necessary to certify the safety of food from production to consumption. Food can become contaminated at any point during slaughtering or harvesting, processing, storage, distribution, transportation and preparation. WHO (1984) has defined food hygiene as all conditions and measures that are required during production, processing, storage, distribution and preparation of food to ensure that it is safe, wholesome and fit for human consumption. Lack of requisite food hygiene can lead to foodborne diseases and death of the consumer. Foodborne illness has been associated with improper storage or reheating (50%), food stored inappropriately (45%) and crosscontamination (39%). The increased numbers of people eating out have caused the emergence of food borne illness due to unhygienic preparation and lack of knowledge of personal hygiene. These contributory factors are due to a lack of food hygiene awareness or implementation. Hazard analysis and critical control points, or HACCP is a systematic preventive approach to food safety from biological, chemical, and physical hazards in production processes that can cause the finished product to be unsafe and designs measures to reduce these risks to a safe level. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) require mandatory HACCP programs for juice and meat as an effective approach to food safety and protecting public health. Food hygiene training is therefore crucial in food safety and is an essential part of the hazard analysis critical control point (HACCP) concept. Food hygiene and safety usually refer to contamination with 'microorganisms' or 'microbes'. All over the world people are seriously affected every day by diseases that are caused by consuming unhygienic and unsafe food. Good hygienic practices (GHP) to prevent and control foodborne diseases. Foodborne diseases result from eating foods that contain infectious or toxic substances. The term 'food hygiene' refers particularly to the practices that prevent microbial contamination of food at all points along the chain from farm to table. Food safety is a closely related but broader concept that means food is free from all possible contaminants and hazards. In practice both terms may be used interchangeably. HACCP implementation in a food business requires the recognition of hazards and their control. Therefore, a major challenge in the food industry is to motivate food handlers to apply what they have learnt regarding food hygiene.

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