Food safety is a scientific discipline describing the handling, preparation, and storage of food in ways that prevent foodborne illness. This includes a number of routines that should be followed to avoid potentially severe health hazards. Food can transmit disease from person to person as well as serve as a growth medium for bacteria that can cause food poisoning. In developed countries there are intricate standards for food preparation, whereas in lesser developed countries the main issue is simply the availability of adequate safe water, which is usually a critical item.

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Chinese and Japanese food safety officials on Monday discussed China-made dumplings contaminated with insecticide and blamed for sickening 10 people in Japan, prompting a nationwide scare over importe

Japan said it will send food-safety officials to China to study how pork dumplings became contaminated with a pesticide that sickened at least 10 Japanese.