– The processing of canned food is quite a safe food processing technique. –Canned food may also go bad and not safe to be consumed due to errors in the processing steps. –Canned food may go bad unintentionally while handling them at household or at the shops, which may result in contamination of its contents. –Consumers may also damage the food when the canned food drops, causing the formation of a seam without being realized by the consumed, because the seam may be hidden under the label.
How Would You Know That A Canned Food May Not Be Safe For Consumption?
– Before buying the canned food in the shops, check carefully the external part of the can.
Suspicious signs: -
– Bad dents. –Extensive rust scratches. Swellings/lumps. –Pierced. –Dirty signs and spots.
Suspected signs:-
– A bubbling appearance, thick liquid and curdled, with fungus. –Stink, sour, appears as rotten egg. –It tastes rancid, off flavor, and bitter.
Signs Of Damage That May Contaminate the Internal Contens OF The Can:-
– Dented in body with seams. –Dented in body and with seams and signs of cracking. –Seams that are opened. –Cracks at seams. -Breaks at seams. –Cracks and dents at seams. –Dents at the edge of seams. –Seams that crack with holes. –Incomplete seams. Bad connetions of seams that are pierced. –Cracks at the lids. –Having holes. –Tiny holes. –Lids that havel been damaged.–Broken. –Rusty. Bubbling because of gases given out by bacteria.
