How To Keep Left-overs Healthful / Avoid Bacterial Contamination
Tuesday, December 25th, 2007Bacterial food poisoning is the most common and often results from mishandling of food. It usually includes food infection and food intoxication. Bacteria multiply fast in food with moisture, warmth and time. One bacterium can multiply easily to more than one million in just eight hours. They multiply best between five degrees and sixty three degrees Celsius but are killed at temperatures of seventy degrees Celsius.
At temperatures below five degrees Celsius, most bacteria multiply very slowly, if at all. At very low temperatures some bacteria will die, but many survive and can start to multiply again if warm conditions return. There are thousands of identified bacteria that may inhibit our leftovers. So to prevent bacterial growth in leftovers you must observed the following:
