World Food Safety Day: How safe is your lunch at work?
We are taking a lighthearted approach to how safe your food (lunch) is in your workplace...
Today is World Food Safety Day.
Did you know that according to the World Health Organization, "One in ten people worldwide fall ill from contaminated food each year."
That may not seem like a lot, but practising food safety and encouraging it amongst our families and peers is essential. Maybe this will change your mind about taking it seriously: the World Health Organization shared that over 200 diseases are caused by eating contaminated food.
We can understand that in some countries poverty and malnutrition are major problems, so food safety is not high on the list of priorities. But, we have decided to look at food safety from a different angle.
We are approaching World Food Safety Day from the perspective of work lunches, particularly their storage in the staff kitchen.
If you work in an office setting, you know there can sometimes be some warfare regarding lunches stored in the staff kitchen. More importantly, over and above the 'stealing' of lunches, some colleagues forget their lunch in the fridge or, worse, at their desks, affecting the whole team.
We once heard a story from a few years back on Reddit about a colleague who stole someone's lunch more than once, and it turned into a case of poisoning. Hectic!
Consuming food that has been left out of the fridge for long periods or old food can have harmful effects on your health. So, if you or your colleagues do not practice food safety in your office, perhaps your company's human resources department should handle it.
When someone is labelled as leaving their food in the fridge or at their desks to rot, it's a major food safety concern. Not just for that person but for the rest of the office.
Do you have someone like that at your workplace?
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