HUMAN NUTRITION

Detailed explanation-1: -What is cross-contamination? Cross-contamination is the scientific word for how bacteria can be spread from one food product to another. This is especially true when handling raw meat, poultry and seafood, so keep these foods and their juices away from ready-to-eat foods.

Detailed explanation-2: -Cross-contamination is the unintentional transfer of microorganisms, chemical contaminants (including allergens) or any foreign substance from food, person, or object to another food product.

Detailed explanation-3: -All food is at risk of one of the four types of contamination: chemical, microbial, physical, and allergenic.

Detailed explanation-4: -Cross-contamination The transfer of harmful substances or disease-causing microorganisms to food by hands, food-contact surfaces, sponges, cloth towels, and utensils that touch raw food, are not cleaned, and then touch ready-to-eat foods.