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Food and Ingredient Cross-Contamination
Indirect cross-contamination
is when a vehicle transfers
Direct cross-contamination
bacteria or virus from one
surface to another, for example,
is when the source of the if you use a knife to prepare raw
bacteria or virus is in actual meat on a chopping board and
contact with the food, for
example, raw meat touches then use the same knife and
ready to eat food when they are board to chop salad vegetables
without cleaning and
stored next to each other in the disinfecting them, you could
refrigerator
transfer bacteria from the raw
meat to the salad and cause
illness.
7.3.3.2.1 Cross-Contamination (18 C – 3)
