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Chief Environmental Health Officer, Tassie Thomas has cautioned food vendors to avoid selling cold foods at events in order to prevent food-borne illnesses.<\/p>\n
She said food-borne illness or food poisoning as it is commonly called is a very serious matter.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have been getting calls from the public with regards to vendors selling cold foods at events,\u201d she said. \u201cTo all food vendors, you need the money, but those who patronize you need your trust and guarantee that the food that you are offering is safe and won\u2019t land them in the hospital or even in the cemetery, because food poison can kill.\u201d<\/p>\n
Furthermore, she told food vendors to ensure that they are certified as well as their staff.<\/p>\n
She encouraged vendors to serve hot foods at all times and, \u201cand cold foods, cold.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDo not store and serve leftover foods to patrons\u2026and be clean, be healthy,\u201d Thomas stated.<\/p>\n
Meantime, she advised customers to be sober and observe that vendors are \u201csafely handling your food.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBuy foods that are meant to be served hot and those meant to be served cold,\u201d Thomas reiterated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Chief Environmental Health Officer, Tassie Thomas has cautioned food vendors to avoid selling cold foods at events in order to prevent food-borne illnesses. She said food-borne illness or food poisoning as it is commonly called is a very serious…","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":299111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[68,17,77,235,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carnival","category-health","category-homepage","category-homepage-carousel","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n