Interview With Gemma Del Caño: “we Must Know What Food Safety Is”
Nowadays, when we talk about going shopping, it is increasingly common for us to worry about choosing “the best” to enjoy health and well-being. The term “food security” is also common.
We want food to be of quality, to have adequate nutritional value and to benefit us to the maximum. In addition, we want to have variety and immediacy and always choose well. However, to do so, we must inform ourselves and carefully observe what we decide to take in the basket, not just what is read in large print.
Gemma del Caño tells us more about Food Safety
Gemma del Caño – better known as @farmagemma in her social networks – has a degree in pharmacy, specializing in industrial pharmacy and R&D, a master’s degree in innovation, biotechnology and food safety, a scientific disseminator and BRC (food safety) auditor. Today you will help us expose and clear up some of the most common concerns of consumers.
Q. How would you define someone who does not know the term “food safety” and what it means?
It would be interesting to make a differentiation between “food safety” and “innocuousness”, despite the fact that the first term is used regularly, when in fact we refer to the second.
Food safety refers to the availability of food and safety refers to the fact that the food we consume is safe, that it is not harmful to health. However, we usually refer to safety rather than safety.
Advances in security have saved millions of lives and that, above all, gives us peace of mind when it comes to shopping for food, because we know that we are not going to meet a poisoning, foreign body or chemical contamination.
Obviously, zero risk does not exist, but today we eat the safest foods in history.
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