DUBAI: Human factor critical to ensuring food safety, says expert - (Gulfnews)
February 27, 2008 – 8:05 pmhttp://www.gulfnews.com/nation/Health/10193178.html
Professor Chris Griffith, head of food research and consultancy unit at Cardiff School of Health Sciences, was cited as telling delegates at the Dubai International Food Safety Conference that preventing food poisoning cannot happen without considering the human factor, the most important and yet the most neglected part of food safety, adding, “The problem is that we have been treating food safety as a microbiology problem and not as a human problem. Humans are involved throughout the food chain, from the food handlers to food enforcers and consumers.
Food safety is a collective responsibility,” he added. One of the weakest links in the food chain is the work culture along the food chain; from farm to fork.
To illustrate the point, Professor Griffith used the example of the E.coli outbreak in South Wales in 2005, which caused hundreds to get sick and killed a 5-year-old boy.
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