Hi Roger Domingo thanks for adding me in your FB. In country like Philippine or any other country food hygiene and safely are an essential policy especially if you dealing and selling food to the public. I guess to compare Philippine and Singapore is not so appropriate. Let put it this way, when you have a 6 x 6m house and a 100x100m which is more easily to maintain cleanness ignoring all other variable factors. Of course, most answer will be 6x6m house is much more easy to maintain and clean. Ironically, if you take in variable factors like attitude, individual awareness,education, rule and regulation it still boiled down to individual to play a part. Take me for example. during my younger day I could not even bother to keep my 30sq foot room clean , only my parent constant nagging about hygiene and occasionally enforcing discipline, some self awareness to change, peer pressure, reward incentive, habit modification it a long time process. Finally, it become part of me wanted to keep the room nice, neat and clean. Just like cooking a clay-pot rice in our restaurant.
Everybody know how to cook a clay pot rice by recipe yo read off the internet. When customer asked for my recipe I were always share the recipe no secret at all. Some of our customer try it most of them comment that it taste so much different. I could only summarize experience of cooking a dish like clay pot rice involved a lot of trial and error, coaching and method from my parent that passed down from generation to another generation the do and don't and ways of cooking a good clay pot rice. New generation improve on it as the people change heir taste is a dynamic process.
Chinese have a saying staying stationary is an effort, to move forward is also an effort so the choice lies in your hand to move or to stay. IF the government want to enforce the food safety rule to every restaurant and individual stall, everybody had to chip in to made it work.
Singapore system were propelled by a pioneering spirit, a dare-to-achieve mindset; a system that projects and plans economic strategies 30 years ahead, one that has seen us cross chasms and somersaulted into uncharted waters; a system that epitomize what politics should be all about - that at the end of the day, the man in the street sees his life transformed from squalor to relative splendor. It took 40 to 50 years to painstakingly evolve a system of governance that is now the envy of many countries. By no means a perfect system of governance, it is as good a system as you will find.
Every country have it while I guess everybody had to see it that they are in the grand picture if the government can see the wondrous of the future and preach about it , at the end of the day, individual or stakeholder on the street don't see any changes, they have a hell of huge mammoth task just imagine trying to convince a beggar on the street to clean their hand before eating !
ROJAK POISONING CASE
Rojak deaths: Misadventure
Food poisoning not an intentional act by stall owner, says coroner
Kimberly Spykerman
The stall was found to be dirty and cockroach-infested, swabs taken from various areas there showed traces of salmonella, which is commonly associated with food poisoning, as well as bacteria originating from faeces and human skin.
THERE was never any doubt that the Indian rojak stall at the Geylang Serai temporary market was unhygienic and poorly maintained.
This finding was put forth yesterday by State Coroner Victor Yeo at the conclusion of an inquiry into the deaths of two women who died last April after eating food from the stall.
Madam Aminah Samijo, 57, and Madam Norani Kassim, 59, were among more than 150 who became ill in one of the Republic's worst incidences of food poisoning in recent years.
The incident sparked a tightening up of inspections across hawker centres islandwide. The Indian rojak stall, which was graded C for its hygiene standards in December 2008, has been ordered closed since the incident.
According to Mr Yeo, claims by stall owner Sheik Alauddin Mohideen, 70, and his four assistants that they adhered to proper hygiene practices seemed 'somewhat rehearsed and slanted', as well as 'incompatible' with the evidence offered by health officers who visited the stall last April.
Not only did they find the stall dirty and cockroach-infested, swabs taken from various areas there showed traces of salmonella, which is commonly associated with food poisoning, as well as bacteria originating from faeces and human skin. One stall assistant even tested positive for rotavirus, which causes severe diarrhoea.
