5 tips of food delivery

Today is the final day of stage 3 of MCO. Many food business owners had practiced online selling on their products and to deliver their foods to customers. And, I guess business owners has to practice it for quite a sometimes. So, let us study what are the concerns we need to take note while delivering food to our customers.

Tips 1: Make sure the food package is not opened or torn. Cooked food's temperature is high while packaged. The temperature will decrease after some times. So, the the packaged is open and torn, it will increase the possibility of food contamination by bacteria in the air.

Tips 2: Make sure the thermal bag is clean. Thermal bag is used to keep packaged food during delivery. Thus, it should be cleaned. Otherwise, contamination could happen during delivery.

Tips 3: To state the food's cooked time on the food packaging. This is very important because the consumer would know how much cooking time had passed when they receive the food. Consumers are advised to consume the food in 2 hours.

Tips 4: Make sure the personal belongings are not put together with the food. The thermal bag should be used only for storing food. Other things have bacteria on surface and could contaminate the food.

Tips 5: Make sure thermal bag is closed tightly. Thermal bag that is not closed tightly will cause bacteria and dirts to contaminate the inner part of thermal bag and eventually contaminate the packaging or food.

When food is contaminated and is consumed, it will cause food poisoning to the customers. Thus, business owners will concern about this before arranging food delivery. We will discuss more about the riders who deliver food in our next blog.

Credit: Food Safety and Quality Division, Labuan Federal Territory Health department