Food Safety and Hygiene Quiz

Food safety refers to disciplines, practices, and methods that ensure food is safe, wholesome, and true to what is advertised. Food hygiene refers to practices and methods used to render a certain item of food free from any risk, especially of illness.

Food security is the concept wherein all people of a community have access, at all times, to safe and wholesome food sufficient to their nutritional needs for an active and healthy life.

Veterinarians, being trained in both animal health and food hygiene, play a significant role in food safety systems, especially for foods of animal origin.

<p>Veterinary involvement is vital in risk-based food safety systems as they possess the necessary expertise to assess and mitigate risks associated with food of animal origin.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Terrestrial Animal Health Code, OIE (2019) emphasizes the role of veterinary services in ensuring food safety.</p> Signup and view all the answers