Tasty and Safe: How to Avoid Food Poisoning During the Holidays

Experts from Belarus named the most common causes of poisoning during the New Year holidays and recalled 11 simple rules that will help to avoid this, writes Health.TUT.BY.

In more than half of the cases, food poisoning on New Year's holidays occurs for one reason - the storage and consumption of dishes and perishable food left over from the festive table. So that the holidays are not overshadowed by undesirable consequences, you must not forget about simple rules:

• when buying products (especially perishable and baby food), pay attention to their shelf life and storage conditions;
• do not eat foods that have expired and (or) have been stored without observing the necessary conditions;
• do not purchase goods with a violation of the integrity of the package and without marking labels (tags);
• do not buy products in places of unauthorized trade;
• do not buy canned food with a violation of the tightness of cans, bombing, with rust, deformed, without a label;
• wash vegetables, fruits, berries and herbs thoroughly before use;
• do not use fruits and vegetables with signs of spoilage;
• observe the rules of personal hygiene: wash your hands thoroughly before preparing food, before eating, after using the toilet; if there are abrasions on the hands, pustular diseases - be extremely careful when preparing food, use gloves;
• observe the technology of cooking, carefully carry out the culinary heat treatment of food, ensuring the death of pathogens of infectious diseases and the destruction of their toxins;
• keep equipment and kitchen utensils clean, use separate cutting boards and knives for raw and finished products that do not require heat treatment;
• cook salads, minced meat and fish products, aspic at home in small quantities, do not store perishable foods and ready-made salads at room temperature.

It should be remembered that moderation is important at the festive table, since unlimited and excessive consumption of any food (even benign ones) can lead to undesirable health consequences.

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In the pre-holiday period, experts remind, one should not forget about the prevention of poisoning with alcohol surrogates: for this, one should refuse to buy alcohol from hands or in questionable places.

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