Food Safety Hazards

An organisms, or substances produced by organisms, that pose a threat to human health.

• Physical Hazard

• Biological Hazard

• Chemical Hazard

This are a foreign materials unintentionally introduced to food products (ex: metal fragments in ground meat) or naturally occurring objects (ex: bones in fish) that are hazardous to the consumer.

• biological hazard

• chemical hazard

• physical hazard

It is any substance that can cause a health problem when ingested or inhaled.

• chemical hazard

• physical hazard

• biological hazard

Microorganisms grow faster in food with high water content such as fresh poultry, meat, fish and raw eggs.

• temperature

• food

• moisture

• acid

When low acid and high protein available foods are left out too long at room temperature can cause bacteria to grow to dangerous levels that can cause illness

• time

• oxygen

• acid

• food