National food safety week
This week is National Food Safety Week, an
annual promotional event to highlight the importance of food safety
and the principles of good hygiene.
This year the theme is called ‘Germ watch’ and
is designed to raise awareness, especially among vulnerable groups,
of the 4 Cs:
- Cross Contamination
- Cleaning
- Chilling
- Cooking
Broxbourne Borough Council has been visiting a
number of children centres to talk to local childminders about food
safety. Babies and children have a lower level of immunity to
germs, so parents and carers have to take extra care over food
safety and hygiene. The Council advised on the hidden dangers
in the kitchen and at the table that can lead to illness.
Freya Rymer of the National Child Minding
Association said “This has been a fantastic opportunity to work in
partnership with Broxbourne Borough Council helping to provide
information to Childminders on how to correctly store and prepare
food.”
Visits were made to Greenfield Children's
Centre and Rye Park Childminding Group, where regular meetings are
held for childminders. They also visited Longfield Children
Centre; a new venue for childminders, and the Foyer, a younger
mothers supported living unit.