CLEANLINESS IN THE KITCHEN IS VERY ESSENTIAL

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 15, Issue 8, 10 March 1950, Page 6

CLEANLINESS IN THE KITCHEN IS VERY ESSENTIAL

Once upon a time a certain inspector (not in New Zealand) was so satisfied that a piece of sausage was all right that he defied the complaints made about it, states the Department of Health. The sausage he inspected was quite all right in appearance and smell and he dismissed the idea of anyone becoming ill through eating it. To prove his point, he ate some himself. Within a week he died ■from food poisoning. It' is not always possible to recognise bad food. Only by maintaining a high standard of personal hygiene and absolute cleanliness in the kitchen can food be prevented from becoming contaminated. Flies And Rats

Food may be infected by germ carriers Such as flies and other insects, mice and rats, ,and the unwashed, germ-laden hands of human beings. Flies are a common, cause of such diseases as infantile diarrhoea, dys’entery and even poliomyelitis. . ' y As for rats and mice, it is obvious that they won’t hang about if seriously discouraged from bringing the filth of the last place they visit--ed. / And there can be no excuse whatsoever for human contamination of food. It is bad enough "when a careless housewife returns from a sanitary convenience without washing her hands to the kitchen where the family’s meals are being prepared. , How much worse it is for a kitchen worker in a catering establishment to do that when hundreds of people are eating „what passes through those unwashed hands. The cleaner a kitchen is, and the cleaner the people are in it, the less- chance there is of dangerous food contamination.