Ensuring Food Safety Among Home-Based F&B Businesses

Dr Anza Elias, Public Health Medicine Specialist & Council Member, Academy of Occupational and Environmental Medicine Malaysia | Kim Lim, Cofounder, PichaEats

07-Apr-21 14:00

Ensuring Food Safety Among Home-Based F&B Businesses

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Throughout the pandemic, a lot of us have been supporting local, home-based F&B businesses, especially as they’ve mushroomed over the past year. With Ramadan set to begin next week and more people likely to buy food from such businesses to break their fast, we take a look at why food safety and hygiene is important, even among home-based businesses.

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Produced by: Lim Sue Ann

Presented by: Tee Shiao Eek, Lim Sue Ann

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Categories: Health Policy, Diseases & Conditions, Mental Health, Healthy Living, Fitness, Medical Innovation and Technology, Food, Social Issues

Tags: The Bigger Picture, The Daily Digest, food safety, home-based food business, home-based food deliveries, typhoid, food poisoning, food hygiene, food contamination,

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