FOOD SAFETY SENSITIZATION IN THE RURAL AREAS: MY EXPERIENCE AS A YOUTH CORP MEMBER
The FAO/WHO International Conference on Nutrition held in Rome in 1992 declared ‘access to nutritionally adequate and safe food is a right of each individual’. The knowledge of what we eat whether safe or unsafe is indeed one key factor that makes or mars us. Food safety is described as the assurance that food when consumed in the usual manner does not cause harm to human health and wellbeing (WHO 2002). Food safety is mainly achieved by a careful control of contamination from the field to the last consumer. Negligence and willful mistakes in processing, storage and transport of food products can cause food borne illnesses and death.
