Monday, June 30, 2014

Reasons For Adhering To Food Safety Consulting

By Elsa English


The modern society has been affected by various lifestyle diseases that are mostly resulted by the consumption of farm products that have undergone a lot of inorganic processing. This has led for call to the relevant authorities to set up measures to ensure food safety consulting is done by the growers in order to come up with more natural farm produce.

The recently practiced agriculture has aided in the rise of drug resistant pathogens in humans. This has resulted to its attack by medical society and consequently the general public. The most recent severe attack was eminent on the writings of director general of WHO whereby he put it that the drug resilient bacteria get transmitted through a food chain into the consumer.

It is true that food has never attained safe standards as today but the awareness of the risks contained in unsafe foods creates the likelihood of more risks than ever. The general recognition has received major support from the mass media. The risks are mainly posed by pathogens, hormones and antimicrobial and residues from chemicals.

New consumer demand has been satisfied by production and availing naturally products which have no hormones as well as antibiotics. This has acted as a safety measure. This however has had a negative impact on the farm products as people are losing trust on them, such products are those that have no label showing safety or high quality. There has been trade barriers set internationally on the products that are not up to standard in reference to importing country.

Naturally raised and fresh products are opted for by consumers and happen to be on high demand. This has led to use of more unprocessed products. As a result, the use of products that have gone processing procedures before reaching the market has been low. The fresher the produce the safer are the consumers from contaminants and pathogens which come about because of consumption of raw materials.

The prevention of pathogens has not been fruitful regardless of the mandatory inspection. These pathogens are food borne and they pose great risk to human health. Taking meat as an instance, in the past, tuberculosis and brucellosis brought about clinical diseases. These could be observed on the level of farm and through meat inspection, lesion would be recognized. Toxoplasma as an example of modern pathogen can be detected through the monitoring systems.

Checks on quality control have been put in place so as to assign quality categories to products prior to making it available in market places. Owing to lack of ways in correcting or upgrading of final product, the high quality product will sell at higher prices while non-marketable ones will have to be cast-off. The production cost of all the qualities being equal makes it important to come up with measures on reducing of losses.

Given the above, it turns to be prudent to look for consultations regarding food safety so as to ensure health problems are reduced while also making you be at a good position to make good profits. For consultations, you can attend seminars or visit agricultural institutes for further knowledge on how to farm in an organic manner.




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