The idea behind these series of articles will be to establish guidelines for correct food safety protocols that are purposefully geared towards developing hygienic habits and to minimizing the risks posed by diseases that can be spread by food. These guidelines from here on out are meant to serve to guide readers into adopting practices that increase the sanitary quality of food. Among the different types of organizations that might benefit from using these guidelines include:
- Anything fitting the definition of a food establishment, be it a restaurant, soup kitchen, or corporate and institutional cafeteria, including the kitchen and dining area inside your own home.
- Covers activities that involve the purchase of food stuffs by armed forces, law enforcement, paramilitary forces, private security and military companies and other types of warrior organizations who might find it necessary to eat collectively and at the expense of their employers and includes rules and regulations in regards to food vendors, contracted catering and food service organizations, concessions for food, food service in hospitals and medical facilities, and non-military or warrior organization retail establishments operating within the boundaries of the warrior organization’s base of operations, facilities, territory and so forth.
- Outlines rules and regulations that must be followed by visiting food service provider organizations in addition to those both employed by the warrior or military organization together with any volunteers, civilians or contract personnel, being in the ongoing process of having provided food stuffs to the beneficiary organization.
- Ensures that all steps in the process taken to provide food stuffs to any employed personnel of the organization is done in a manner in accordance with food safety guidelines, that it is distributed in a manner that is not meant to deceive the individual receiving it, and that it is not tainted in the process of preparation by any bacteria, virus, poison or other forms of food based contaminants.
- Aims to provide assistance to anyone wishing to establish legal compliance in a more technically oriented manner for the purpose of identifying any establishment that cannot be deemed a food establishment, but is nevertheless a source of food stuffs to organization personnel, whether that food stuffs and food service provider be a farmers market, domicile based business, collective organizational food events and drives, and vegetable gardens established in the local vicinity of an warrior organization’s area of operations designated to promote health, wellness and learning experiences for personnel.
- Any high risk area that is known for having questionable levels of food safety standards as well as enforcements around these standards first needs to undergo a food and water risk assessment to determine the appropriate response in terms of dealing with certain types of potential hazards and foodborne illnesses that would typically be not be so much a problem in an environment with higher food and water standards and enforcement.