The College of Nursing at the University of Baghdad organized a workshop entitled (Food Safety) on the virtual platform (Google Meet) in the presence of a number of teachers and students of primary and postgraduate studies.
The workshop aimed at ways to maintain food health and safety in addition to storing foods at appropriate temperatures to preserve them in order to be suitable for human consumption.
The workshop also included other topics, including addressing common foodborne diseases and physical, chemical and biological sources of pollution, which include more than 40 types of bacteria, viruses, parasites, and molds that may be found in food and cause food poisoning, and most people may get it, but there is a group more susceptible to this poisoning, and it includes; people with weak immunity due to infection with a certain disease or due to the use of medicines, young children, the elderly, and people who receive Special health care.
The researchers in the workshop called for personal hygiene as the bacteria that cause food poisoning spread everywhere, and the bacteria can be transmitted from people to food easily; by touching the nose, eyes, hair, or clothes, and then touching food.
Also, store food properly and stay away from the danger zone, which is the area where temperatures are between 5-60 degrees Celsius, as bacteria in this area multiply significantly and faster than possible, so it is necessary to avoid those temperatures when preserving foods.