Principles of Food Safety and Sanitation

Vocabulary flashcards covering the core concepts, principles, legal frameworks, and regulatory agencies of food safety and sanitation.

Sanitas

The Latin word meaning "health," from which the term sanitation is derived.

Sanitation (Food Industry)

The creation and maintenance of hygienic and healthful conditions by applying science to provide wholesome food in a clean environment by healthy workers.

Food Hygiene

The conditions and measures necessary to ensure the safety of food from production to consumption.

Food Suitability

The assurance that food is acceptable for human consumption, concerned with intrinsic characteristics such as taste, smell, texture, and presentation.

Food Safety

The practice of producing, handling, storing, and preparing food to limit hazards that may make it injurious to the consumer's health.

Five Key Principles of Food Hygiene

WHO guidelines that include: preventing pathogen contamination, separating raw and cooked foods, cooking thoroughly, storing at proper temperatures, and using safe water and raw materials.

Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA)

The principal act concerned with protecting employee and public health and safety; its administration was formed in 1971 to enforce standards and training.

ISO 22000

An international standard specifying requirements for a food safety management system combining interactive communication, system management, prerequisite programs, and HACCP principles.

Employees' Right-to-Know Act

Regulations providing a legal framework for controlling substances hazardous to health, such as toxic, harmful, irritant, or corrosive materials in the workplace.

Presidential Decree 856

The Sanitation Code of the Philippines, issued by President Ferdinand Marcos, requiring food establishments to secure sanitary permits and health certificates for personnel.

Bureau of Food and Drugs (BFAD)

The key regulatory agency of the Department of Health in the Philippines responsible for ensuring the safety, efficacy, and quality of food, drugs, and cosmetics.

Republic Act 3720

The Philippine legislation that created the Bureau of Food and Drugs (BFAD) to regulate the production, sale, and traffic of safe, good-quality food and drugs.

Republic Act 7394

Also known as the Consumer Act of the Philippines, which reiterated BFAD's mandate to protect consumers from adulterated or unsafe products and misleading information.