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Behavior Change If You Want Healthy Eating

How often do you forget about handwashing with soap before eating ? Try checking your kitchen , whether the trash is located adjacent to the cooking utensil ? When cooking or storing food in the fridge , if you ignore the rules separate raw materials with materials to prevent cross-contamination of cooked food ?

Various habits and behavior determines the quality of the food you consume daily . Simple behavior at home , healthy , also will produce safe and healthy food .Determine behavioral changes more than the food quality concerns such as borax chemical contaminants in foodstuffs .


" People's perceptions about food safety is still relevant even though the challenge lies in the chemical behavior , " said Head of Food and Drug Information Center ( BPOM ) Roy Sparingga during a press conference Chefmanship Academy seminar in Jakarta , some time ago .According to Roy , the community needs to get education related behavioral changes in food processing . Because , how to process food that is not right cause cross-contamination risk from unsafe materials , from the environment , the less appropriate cookware functions , also from the man himself .


Director General of Disease Control and Environmental Health of the Republic of Indonesia Ministry of Health , Tjandra Yoga Aditama said cross-contamination can also occur as a result of human behavior . Healthy Behavior Clean like Handwashing ( CTPS ) for example , also have an impact on food safety .


" If the food is good but not CTPS run before eating , food is so not safe , " said Tjandra .With further implement healthy behaviors in the management of food , microbial contamination at the time of cross-contamination of food occurs can also be avoided .


Data BPOM on Extraordinary Events ( KLB ) of food poisoning in 2012, the most common among food snacks , food catering and household cooking . Food sources are referred to as the Food BPOM Ineligible ( TMS ) is mostly contaminated microbes , from 66 percent in 2012 and increased to 76 percent in 2013 . TMS due to contamination of food chemicals such as borax percentage is actually small .