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Food Focus August 2007

Publications

NZFSA publishes a number of booklets, leaflets and fact sheets covering various food safety topics. All are available for download from NZFSA’s website www.nzfsa.govt.nz. Hard copies can be ordered by freephone 0800 693 721 or email info@nzfsa.govt.nz

Eating safely when you have food allergies

This 24-page A5 booklet provides information that will help allergy sufferers make better food choices when managing their allergy.

Food safety and hangis

Provides a step-by-step guide to food safety practices when preparing and cooking a hangi.

Food safety when you have low immunity

Information for those catering for the very young, the frail elderly,pregnant mums or anyone suffering a chronic illness. Produced in A5 and a large-print A4 version.

Meet the bugs

An 8-panel brochure provides information about the most common pathogens to cause foodborne illness – their symptoms and likely sources of infection.

Good food/safe food for older people

Developed in conjunction with the New Zealand Nutrition Foundation this 8-panel brochure features food safety information for the elderly who receive meals-on-wheels, or reheat frozen meals, as well as nutrition advice.

Food safety in pregnancy

Pregnant women have lower levels of immunity than usual and may be more at risk of getting diseases carried by food. This booklet provides advice and guidance on cooking, storing, and eating out – in New Zealand and overseas. A 20-page A5 booklet.