First step towards food safety

The basic step for being a food safe individual is to wash your hands properly. Invisible germs on hands can contaminate the food that you or others eat. Teaching children about proper hand washing is an essential part of food safety but it is not always easy. Simple way of teaching kids about hygiene is to play hand washing games with them.

Wash your hands the right way.. for 20 seconds with soap and running water. To estimate 20 seconds of hand washing, singing a b c till z is one of the fun idea.

Good hand washing is the first line of defense against the spread of many communicable diseases and most type of infectious diarrhea.

Wondering when you should wash hands?

Wash hands before going in the fridge, after handling pets, arriving home from school, shopping, play; before and after handling raw and cooked food etc.

What to do if water is not available?

When soap and water are not available; sanitizers that contains minimum 60 percent alcohol can be good choice. For sanitizers to work, they have to air dry on hands instead of being dried of with towel.