What Is Cross-contamination?

Cross-contamination is transmission of microorganisms from contaminated surfaces to other surfaces.

There are some ways of cross-contamination. These are;

• From stuff to food
• From food to food
• From equipment or other surfaces that contact to the food to food.

What Are The Sources Of Cross-contamination?

• Uncleaned hands of the stuffs
• Dirty surfaces, dirty cutting boards and work tops.
• Equipments, fridges and knives
• Swabs
• Raw foods, unwashed foods.

How To Prevent Cross-contamination?

The most important way to prevent cross-contamination is using gloves especially in catering companies, restaurants, cafes. But before wearing gloves, hands have to be washed well. The contamination sources are;

• Packages put on work tops
• Cooling equipments such as fridge
• Cutting several kinds of foods on the same cutting boards
• Not washing hands before wearing gloves
• Non-disinfected wok tops
• Using disinfectants in wrong concentrations

To prevent cross-contamination there are some procedures to focus. These are;

• Stuff hygiene
• Receiving
• Storage of foods and chemicals
• Food preparing
• Food equipments and their usage
• Hygiene and sanitation

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