Wash And Prepare Food Properly
When you buy food from the grocery store, know that it has been handled by many hands before it got to you. How sure are you that all these hands are as clean and virus-free as you need them to be? Any of these hands could have been harboring viruses and bacteria, or the ones handling the food before you did might not have been wearing a mask, or a customer before you may have sneezed an aerosol onto the packaging or the food itself. The possibilities are plenty and the assurance of cleanliness is few. The truth is, you do not have a realistic way to be sure of the food’s level of cleanliness, so you will need to ensure it yourself by washing it yourself.
Once you have bought the food from the grocery store, wash it before you store it. If it is sealed in packaging, even the packaging can harbor the virus, so wash those, too. Wet goods like fresh meat need to be washed before storage, and cooked thoroughly before serving. Fresh vegetables need to be washed, too. If the vegetables are to be cooked, the heat should further reduce the possibility of a live virus infecting you. If the vegetables are to be served uncooked, as in a salad, wash them before you toss them in for serving. And remember, whoever is preparing the food, either cooking meat and vegetables, or preparing the salad, these people should wash their hands properly before handling the food, both in preparing the food and in serving the food.
And if your role is to eat the food, you also have a role to wash your hands before you eat. The cleaner the hands that handle the food from start to finish, the less chances there will be that the viruses will get to infect the diners.
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