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Personal hygiene — AQA GCSE Food Preparation and Nutrition Definition | GradeGen

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GCSE Food Preparation and Nutrition · key term

Personal hygiene

Definition

Practices that keep a food handler clean and reduce the transfer of harmful microorganisms and physical contaminants to food.

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AQA GCSE Food Preparation and Nutrition · 8585

Specification 3.4.2.2 · Paper 1

Revise: Preparing, Cooking and Serving Food

AQA Food Preparation and Nutrition past papers

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