PROCESS HYGIENE | Involvement of Regulatory and Advisory Bodies

Abstract

There is a steady increase in the involvement of regulatory and advisory bodies in the area of food process hygiene. Major programs are under way to revise the nature of regulatory intervention, together with supporting educational, normative, and accreditation programs. There are a number of reasons for this, not the least of which is the rate of illness and death stemming from poor process hygiene. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published an article in 2011 entitled “In the United States, 31 major food-borne illnesses that annually caused 9.4 million episodes of foodborne illness, 55961 hospitalizations, 1351 deaths lives and cause multimillion dollar economic losses”.