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Food Handling

Medical Definition:	Any aspect of the operations in the preparation, transport, storage, packaging, wrapping, exposure for sale, service, or delivery of food.
Guide Notes:	includes prep, processing, handling, transport, serving, delivering, etc.
Also Called:	Food Processing

Food Handling Categories.

	Cookery - The art or practice of cooking. It includes the preparation of special foods for diets in various diseases.
	Food Dispensers, Automatic - Mechanical food dispensing machines.
	Food Packaging - Containers, packaging, and packaging materials for processed and raw foods and beverages. It includes packaging intended to be used for storage and also used for preparation of foods such as microwave food containers versus COOKING AND EATING UTENSILS. Packaging materials may be intended for food contact or designated non-contact, for example, shipping containers. FOOD LABELING is also available.
	Food-Processing Industry - The productive enterprises concerned with food processing.
	Meat-Packing Industry - The aggregate enterprise of technically producing packaged meat.

Food Handling Medical Definitions and Terms

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