Things To Mind
Bakeries are where people go to in search of bread urged by various needs. They produce flour-made foodstuffs, meaning, eatables that are taken in to the body and should thus be clean enough for bodily consumption.
Any contaminated bread due to poor sanitation inside and the immediate environment of bakeries could bring ailments to consumers. Such is the thing we want to avoid, making sure owners of bakeries strictly observe proper sanitation in their establishments. We can’t afford to fall victims of their irresponsibility.
Yet, if we will make a tour to the working areas of some of these bakeries, we might not believe our eyes. Some of which are filthy. The workers do not observe cleanliness, baring their bodies at work while their perspiration profusely drips everywhere, sometimes landing on the bread in progress. When the urge to spit comes, or when they feel like unloading their clogged nose, they just do it elsewhere, too.
Aside from the unsanitary practices of workers and the failure of owners to enforce cleanliness, insects that facilitate the spread of disease likewise swarm around. Flies flock to the area; rats with dirt-soaked feet are running around, cockroaches crawl up and down the containers, all of them littering their dung, spreading germs, contaminating the food items.
It’s no surprise then that sometimes, buyers could see inside the breads they buy dirt of whatever sorts, like a rat’s dung, a dead fly, legs of a cockroach, and a lot more. If one is not watchful enough, one might be eating these things inadvertently. It then pays to examine closely what you eat to avoid taking in wastes.
This watchfulness, though, only applies to visible contaminants, which may not be so harmful at all. Those disease-causing germs, viruses, and bacteria that cannot be seen by naked eyes, are the most dangerous. They thrive in dirty environments. Most likely, some bakeries must have been playing host to all these as partly evidenced by the above finds.
If workplaces like offices have to be clean, all the more that bakeries should be since they are producing food items meant for human consumption. Sanitation in their workplace should be doubly observed as failure to do so could result in human suffering, even death. It’s ironic that, while mere factory areas are religiously observing sanitary practices, some bakeries are not.
Aren’t bakeries into business? Of course they are. But why can’t some owners realize that cleanliness should be a vital part of their investment? Why do they allow costumers to get pissed off by dirt in their products? Why?
By: Doms Pagliawan
