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How safe is food?

How safe is food?
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]]20 December 2011 Cumhuriyet

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The experts who Say that it is possible to mention food safety in Turkey are considering there are only 5 thousand food supervisors in order to check food sales point around 450 thousand food enterprises in the country and about 450 thousand. [[T][4][[T]] [

The Union of Turkish Engineer and Architect Chambers (TMMOB) said Petek Ataman, President of the Chamber of Food Engineers, 50 thousand food enterprises located in Turkey and only 5 thousand food supervisors to control the food sales point around 450 thousand. [

Ataman essential that in Konya, where foodstuffs, which will not risk human health, are defined as safe food.

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Ataman expressing that food safety is not only in consumption stage, production, processing, distribution, storage and sales processes are also covered, food safety stressed that the physical, chemical and biological risks that arises throughout the entire food chain are minimized by taking the necessary measures or not harm human health.

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Ataman, which points out there are various problems in the provision of food safety in Turkey, comes from unregistration at the wind of the "commons. An important problem in the food industry, as well as in many sectors of non-register. There are only 5 thousand food supervisors to control the food sales point around 450 thousand food enterprises located in Turkey. In these supervisors, the rate of food engineer received education in this regard was very low.

In the press, Ataman, who said that there are many news that leads to food and health relations, and information pollution, alert:

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'Nobody has the right to create false perceptions in the consumer, mislead the consumer. The information that non-specialist people are sometimes caused by negativeities by offering foods such as medicine. All institutions and organizations relating to the fact that difficult information pollution in this field should note that this is a social responsibility. '

Ataman added that many institutions of the state should work together to troubleshoot.

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Department of Food Engineering at the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Selhal (SÜ) Prof. Home. Mustafa Karakaya said in parallel with the rapid rise of the world population, the environmental pollution, depending on this, the air, water, the soil is contaminated.

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Karakaya, telling people who are experiencing serious manada risks for people who consume products from the soil, stressed that animals and plants should be grown in clean and healthy environments.

By expressing that the inspection for safety food is essential, the 'food control approach in our country must be re-reviewed. A quick, efficient and deterrent auditory was installed.

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Karakaya, which expresses the threat of the implementation of poor production in non-hygienic environments, implications of state-related authorities and absolute deterrent infections:

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"This application is possible to mention the food safety in Turkey unless it is done. For safe food, environmental pollution should be eaten, agricultural medicine and fertilizer use should be reduced. Blocking the stairs by authorization of six production performers must be done very often. It should be controlled at every stage from field to connect, garden, poultry, network, barn, transportation, preservation and final product. At this point, audit elements grown in food should be employed. All units related to food businesses and food should be every month or every three months if possible, not a year.

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