food handling

Preparing edible items

Food handling is the process of preparing, storing, transporting, or serving food in ways that maintain safety and prevent contamination.

The term appears most often in regulations and training: All employees must complete a food handling course.

Proper food handling includes temperature control, sanitation, and preventing cross-contamination between raw and cooked items.

Opposites
stage of food interaction

food handlingeating

Ingesting sustenance

digestion · ingestion · food production · agriculture · waste management

activity vs. inactivity

food handlingfood storage

Preserving consumables for later

care and safety protocol

food handlingfood contamination

Harmful substances in edibles

cross-contamination · food spoilage · food poisoning

Family

food, handling

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G