1. The common safety issues related to food purchase, storage, and preparation.

The common health problem is food borne illness known as food poisoning. Food borne illness every year gets one out of six Americans sick by eating or drinking contaminated foods. When purchasing foods consider recent food recalls when shopping for groceries. Inspecting your foods before you purchase them like meat, poultry produce, and cheese needs to have proper color and no signs of dirt. Storing the meat, cheese, and poultry in the refrigerator or the freezer as soon as you get home from grocery shopping. Cleaning vegetables with a scrub brush is very important. Meat and poultry does not have to be rinsed. When preparing a meal make sure to have different cutting boards and knives for vegetables and meat. Also, making sure anything you are cooking reaches the safe inside temperature is very important.

2. Describe some illnesses or problems the safety issues might cause, and ways to prevent the illnesses or problems.

According to the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) there are many different diseases causing microbes or pathogens that can contaminate foods. There has been a discovery of more than 250 different types of food borne diseases, which cause viruses, parasites, and bacteria. All the types of food borne diseases have different symptoms, the toxin enters the human body through the gastrointestinal tract causing nausea, abdominal pain, diarrhea, cramps, and vomiting. The challenges in food safety can continue to increase because of changes in food production and supply, increase number of multi-state outbreaks, changes in the environment that leads to food contamination, new toxics, and different contaminated foods such as prepackaged foods such as raw cookie dough, peanut butter, and bagged spinach. The germs responsible for food borne illness are E.