FOOD SPOILAGE AND

FOOD PETS
WHAT IS FOOD SPOILAGE?

Food spoilage means the original

nutritional value, texture, flavor of
the food are damaged, the food
become harmful to people and
unsuitable to eat.
 Causes of the Spoilage of Food
• Improper storage temperature.
• Incorrect storage times.
• Improper ventilation.
• Failure to separate foods.
• Excessive delays between
receiving and storing.
• Inadequate food safety
standards.
Examples for Food Spoilage

Bread
Fresh fruits and Vegetables
Fresh meat
Fish
Eggs
 Sign of Food Pests and Related
Hazards
Pest Characteristics Hazards Signs of
Infestation
An agile animal with  All rodents can  Dropping and
Black rat pointed nose, long tall carry pathogenic urine smears.
and large ears. and spoilage  Fur
organisms which  Dead bodies
Larger and more will contaminate  Sightings of live
Brown rat common than the foods. animals.
black rat with small  Droppings,  Damage to
ears and shorter tail. urine, fur or premises and
dead bodies equipment due
may be gnawing.
Small with pointed
deposited in  Smell from
head, large ears and
food. nests.
very long tail. They
House mouse breed rapidly and will
nibble food and non –
food items. They
prefer cereal foods.
Flying insects

 Carry  Live or dead insects in the

and around food.
pathogens  Maggots or pupae on
or spoilage food.
Houseflies,
bacteria on
Flies bluebottles,
green 
their bodies.
Defecate on
bottles, and food as they
eat.
fruit flies are
 Lay eggs on
all concern in food.
food  Adult flies
premises. may die in
the food.
Crawling insects
Ants Food premises attract  Spread  Live or dead
Crawling insects black ants. Black ants pathogenic insects in or
will Food
infest food
premises organisms. 
Spread pathogenic around food.
Live or dead
premises in their  Deadorganisms.
bodies  Presence of
insects in or
attract black ants.
search for sweet may Dead bodies may nests inaround food.
Black ants will infest
Ants foods.
food premises in
contaminate
food.

contaminate food. premises
these may
thoughof nests
Presence
be
in premises
their search for difficultthough
to these may
sweet foods. defect.be difficult to
Cock – roaches The Oriental  Carry  Live and dead
defect.
cockroach is brown
The Oriental cockroach pathogenic 
Carry pathogenic insects. Live and dead
withisabrown
flat body about
with a flat organisms
organisms  Egg cases or
insects.
25mmbody in about
length.25mmThey in including
including 
larvae. Egg cases or
are length.
often found They inare often Salmonella. 
Salmonella. Odor. larvae.
Cock – roaches damp conditions.
found in damp  Egg cases, fecal fecal
Egg cases,  Odor.
Theconditions.
German pellets and
pellets and bodies
cockroach
The German is aboutcockroach bodies
in in food.
food.
15mm in a flat body
is about 15mm in a flat
andbody
humid and conditions.
humid
Bothconditions.
species can fly species
Both
andcan
both flyfeed
and on both feed on
waste food.
waste food.
Silverfish FishFish
shapedshaped 
greygrey bodies 
Don’tDon’t contaminate  and
Live sead
Live and sead
Silverfish bodies
withwitheveryevery
long contaminate
food directly but insects.
insects.
longantennae.
antennae. food directly but
can fall into food.
can fall into
food.
Birds
Birds  Carry  Live and dead
Birds Any birds that gain  pathogenic
Carry  Live and dead
birds.
access to food pathogenic birds.
bacteria  Droppings.
Any birds that
premises are again
pest. bacteria  Droppings.
including  Nest sites.
Most to
access often they are
food including  Nest sites.
pigeons and Salmonella.
Salmonella.  Feathers.
Feathers.
premises are a
sparrows, but other   Leave
Leave
Birds pest. Most often
birds can cause contaminated
contaminated
they are pigeons
problems. droppings andand
droppings
and sparrows, but feathers in food.
feathers in
other birds can  Can
food.
cause problems. contaminate
 Canwater supplies,
contaminate
particularly
water
wheresupplies,
dead
birds fall into
particularly
water tanks.
where dead
birds fall into
water tanks.
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