Food Spoilage
Concept Map
Objectives
This OER enables you to:
- explain the meaning of food spoilage
- give the reasons for the food spoilage and describe the signs and consequences
- suggest ways to prevention of food spoilage
- make use of the prevention methods in day to day life
Introduction
World Food Day is celebrated every year around the world on 16 October in honor of the date of the founding of the Food and Organization of the United Nations in 1945.The day is celebrated widely by many other organisations concerned with food security.It is stated thtat “Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient,
safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and
healthy life”. (World Food Summit, 1996)
For more information visit http://www.fao.org
Activity -1
What do you think are the major issues related to Food security? Jot down three most important issues related to food security in your note book or the space given below for the time being.
Check your answer and see you have mentioned "Food spoilage " as one of the concerns. You can very well understand that ''Food spoilage is a major issue to be tackled for realization of the dream of a world without hunger as envisaged by United Nations.
