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I AGREE with the remark by Ms Agnes Tan - in her letter, 'Hygiene in hawker centres', last Saturday - that food handlers must practise good food hygiene.
The National Environment Agency (NEA) requires all registered food handlers to undergo a basic food-hygiene course before they could operate a stall, including at hawker centres.
Food handlers are taught not to handle cooked or ready-to-eat food with bare hands, and they are aware that they must not handle money with the same pair of gloves.
NEA officers conduct inspections at hawker centres and other food places, and act against any food handler found with unhygienic practices. Our 24-hour contact line: 1-800-CALL NEA (1-800- 2255 632).
Chan Wai San (Ms)
Director, Hawkers Department
National Environment Agency
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