Rojak Saga

Food poisoning is a serious case for some. It is no wonder that until recently, people have been taking it for granted.

Whenever I order my food, regardless whether it is in the hawker centres or restaurants, I admit that I seldom take notice how they prepare my meal. Why? I have been eating from them since god knows when. I trusted the food vendor, I trusted the food hygiene. I also took a quick glimspe at the laminated blue NEA certified food hygiene level. Most of the food vendors I patronize has the B or A lables. Sometimes, I even dared to patronize those who got C.

Well, you could argue that these lables doesn't reflect on daily basis and I don't deny that. I evidently places my trust on the food vendor themselves.

If I were the one suffered from food poisoning after eating at the rojak stall, would I still be eating from there again?Maybe no because they lose my trust.

I know they don't know what is Corporate Social Responsibility. At least they have to make it save for all of us to eat. If every stall holders have taken the least effort to make their food stalls clean, be it the choping board, the plates they use or whatever paraphernalia they use to prepare our food, these issues will never crop up.

Why now? One thing for sure, negligence. Stall holders should know if their food is deemed unsafe. I have heard how they have kept leftovers and mixed it with new ones the very next day. I have heard people sabotage but that is very unlikely. Why would they want to sabotage themselves? If there is a competitor came over their stall plonked something into their food, they should have already known.

We all know times are hard. There is no substitute for fresh cooked food. If there is leftovers, I'm sure the next thing you need to do is to reduce the production. What happens if not enough then? Study the pattern. Businessmen always study market conditions, so why can't the stallholders?

They have to realize the price of being negligent. Death.