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Food safety and Hygiene
International Conference on
Journal of Food Technology and Preservation | ISSN: 2591-796X | Volume 2
Food safety & hygiene: Contemporary issues and a future direction for the Nigerian food supply chain
Sirajo Mohammed Funtua and Gimba K I
Federal Polytechnic, Nigeria
Food safety is essential for the health and well-being of
consumers, while food quality is for their satisfaction and
nutrition.Ifqualityandsafetyaretobeguaranteed,goodpractices
must be employed from growing, harvesting and postharvest
handling of foods, to the processing, packaging, distribution,
during storage and preparation before consumption. This has
become imperative because foodstuffs undergo progressive
deterioration in quality and safety after harvested, gathered,
caught or slaughtered with microbes such as bacteria, yeasts,
moulds, insects and rodents being in endless competition with
man for the supply of his food. These factors together with
environment and presence of toxic chemical such as pesticide
residues combine to make food either inedible (quality issue)
or unsafe (safety issue) for use and/or consumption. There are
higher expectations fromthe 21st century consumerswhowant
their food products to be palatable, have high nutritional value
and free from pathogenic and spoilage microorganisms. Hence,
preservation and maintenance of safety of food produced
as it goes from farm-to-fork and/or from pasture-to-plate
remain the number one issue of concern among governments,
stakeholders and consumers in many committed countries of
theworld. Owing to the fact that specific consumer requirement
is that foods give them the required nourishment and pose no
direct or indirect risk to their health. Nigeria as a nation has a
long way to go to ensure that safe food products are distributed
to the teaming population of Nigerians that depend largely
on regulated food products that are manufacture in Nigeria.
Speaker Biography
Sirajo Mohammed Funtua is a Principal Instructor I, presently awaiting to be promoted
to the position of Assistant Chief Instructor with the department of Food Science and
Technology, Federal Polytechnic. Kaura-Namoda, Zamfara state. He attended Aya
primary school, Funtua between 1980 and 1986. He completed his secondary school
education between 1987 and 1992 at Government Day Secondary School, Funtua and
Unity Secondary School (Exchange Programme Institution) Malumfashi, Katsina State.
He then proceeded to Federal Polytechnic, Kaura-Namoda and he bagged National
Diploma in Food Science and Technology in the year 1998. He bagged HND in Food
Technology from Kaduna Polytechnic, Kaduna between 2003 and 2005. He then
proceeded to the Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi where he was awarded
with the certificate of Post Graduate Diploma (PGD) in Food Science and Technology
between 2009 and 2010; and he obtained an MSc in Food Safety and Quality
Management in the year 2013 from the University of Greenwich, London, United
Kingdom. He has been serving the Nigeria Institute of Food Science and Technology
at the local and national levels for several years as the Chairman NW II between 2014
and 2016, National Publicity Secretary between 2016 and 2018. He has published
several research findings in the national and international journals of high reputes.
e:
Sirajo Mohammed Funtua et al., Food Safety 2018, Volume 2
DOI: 10.4066/2591-796X-C1-002