Explain Why You Should Also Wash The Surfaces And Utensils

You should also wash the surfaces and utensils after each use. Bacteria can be spread throughout the kitchen. The bacteria can be on your utensils, counter tops, and off the cutting boards. There are a couple of ways to prevent the bacteria from getting to you. One way is you should use clean clothes or paper towels to wipe up the surface of the kitchen. If you were to use a wash cloths you should put them in the hot cycle of your washing machine. (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services)

The next step you should do is wash all your dishes, utensils, and counter tops with hot water. As an extra safety measure, you can use as solution of 1 tablespoon of liquid chlorine bleach in 1 gallon of water to sanitize washed surfaces and utensils. This important you do that so everything is clean and bacteria can’t stick or get on your hands but you should always wash your hands before you eat and after you eat.

When you want to eat a fruit or vegetable you must wash them off first before you eat it. There is a multiple ways to wash all your fruits and

vegetables off successfully. One way that you can do is cut out any damaged or bruised areas on your fruit and vegetable. Another way you can clean off you fruit and vegetable is to rinse off the fruit and vegetable under running water. You shouldn’t use soap, detergent, bleach, or any types of soaps on it. Scrub firm on like the melons or cucumbers with a clean brush. One more way you can clean it is use a dry fruit or vegetable with a paper towel or clean cloth towel and you are done. Any bagged fruits or vegetables marked with “pre-washed” is safe to use without washing it in the future but if you feel like you need to you can. (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services)
When washing raw meat and poultry can actually help bacteria spread. Because their juices may splash onto your sink and countertops. All commercial eggs are washed before they are sold. Any extra handling of the eggs such as washing the eggs may actually increase the risk of the bacteria getting in the egg especially if the shell is cracked. (U.S. Food and Drug Administration)
When you buy meat or other poultry, you must make sure you remove all bones and inedible areas off of the food before cooking and consuming it. Bones could be choked on, and some parts of the animal body are not to be consumed and should be removed before cooking. With fruits and vegetables, make sure you previously clean and remove bad stuff as well. Fruits sometimes grow with inedible skins, with cores, seeds, and stems needed to be removed. Vegetables sometimes require skinning, cleaning, and removal of seeds, cores, roots and leafy parts before you are able to eat it. Both of these foods are may be eaten raw in some cases if both are in high quality and extremely fresh, once cleaned thoroughly, otherwise they could be fatal to the body when eaten, or you may fall ill with food poisoning, or salmonella. It is extremely important to always wash your foods before eating them because there is always possible dirt, pesticide, germs, bugs, and other hazards on the food that may reduce the quality the product. This is very relevant to clean food first to ensure safety before eating.
Consumers don’t always know, prior to purchasing their produce, where it was made and what’s in it. This is an extremely important factor in food safety because if you do not know what and where you food is from, you are unaware to what it’s exposed to and also the ingredients your body may be subject to. Sometime even injected with growth hormones (unnatural treatment in order to increase speed and amount in which food grows), or possibly genetically modified in a laboratory by scientists (a process in which the DNA of the food is tampered with for it to be made in ways other than how it would naturally.) In addition, many of the ingredients listed in lots of processed boxed on shelves in supermarkets may be extremely harmful to your body due to the fact it’s made in a factory. Chemicals and fillers, as well as dyes, fat, and sugar additives, poison our bodies and cause obesity in society nowadays. It is also an extremely important rule we must use in food safety to keep ourselves healthy. (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services)
Not always will the most expensive foods be best for you, but in some cases, the more naturally grown fruits/vegetables and/or locally caught/slaughtered meats and seafood, may tend to be more expensive than those shipped on planes or driven in trucks dozens of miles from a faraway location.

May times food maybe be exposed to diseases, bacteria, parasites, rodents, and bugs when be transported to far away locations. Especially if the foods are from factories where the animal or produce is given poor food and living conditions before being shipped out. Not always will inexpensive fruit and vegetables be good for you, so a solution to this problem could be to visit a local farmers market and eat seasonal produce available close to you instead of shipped in food you may be sketchy about. An important thing in food safety is to always buy the most natural and best quality food available to avoid food poisoning. (Teens

Health)
When you cook seafood or meat, first make sure your food is properly cleaned before anything else. Make sure you cook your food without using fatty or sugary additives to assure it’s healthier for you. Also, cook your seafood or meat thoroughly and at a specific heat to kill all bacteria or sickness in the food before consuming it. A major contender to food poisoning nowadays is not fully cooking food through and ingesting the bacteria that were supposed to be cooked out. This is harmful to your body, so immediately it will be rejected by your stomach and ejected from your body completely. This is important to food safety because some foods are not edible unless cooked well. (Medline Plus)
In conclusion, I believe food safety is extremely important, especially if you’re aware of the growth and ingredients in your food, the proper cleaning of the products before consumption, the quality of foods bought, how to cook them, the conditions they should be refrigerated under, and how you should prepare the foods as well.