Food Hygiene for the
Hospitality Industry
F792 10
Discuss the causes of food poisoning
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Discuss the causes of food poisoning
Food poisoning causes
Food poisoning can be the result of many causes not
only bacterial.
• Identify as many causes of food poisoning as you
can.
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Discuss the causes of food poisoning
Foodborne
Illnesses or diseases caused by pathogens are known
as foodborne diseases.
• Can you identify the main sources of these
pathogens?
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Discuss the causes of food poisoning
Food poisoning
In 1988 Health Minister, Edwina Currie provoked
outrage by saying that a specific bacterium was to be
found in all of a certain product.
• What was the bacterium and what was the
product?
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Discuss the causes of food poisoning
E.Coli 0157
Britain’s deadliest outbreak of E.coli occurred in 1996,
when 21 people lost their lives after eating infected
meat from a butcher in Wishaw, Lanarkshire. Another
400 were infected.”
• What are the possible sources of this outbreak?
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