注意街头食品的卫生

92 注意街头食品的卫生

DEVELOPMENT REPORT September 10, 2001: Street Food SafetyBy George Grow

（Start at 1'01"） This is Bill White with the VOA Special English DEVELOPMENT REPORT.
Street food is food that is prepared, sold and eaten on city streets. Street food is an important part of the (1)diets of people in developing¹ countries. An (2)estimated two-thousand-five-hundred-million people (3)worldwide eat street food. This kind of food is low in cost, tasty, (4)nutritious and easy to serve. It is designed for the lives of busy people in large cities.
But buyers must be careful about health risks. Studies have repeatedly² found unacceptably high levels of harmful bacteria³ in street food products. Recently, the United⁴ Nations Food and (5)Agriculture Organization reported on the problem.
Street food sellers⁵ in developing countries often lack the storage⁶, cooking and cooling equipment necessary to prevent the formation⁷ of dangerous (6)bacteria. Under some conditions, a single bacterium⁸ can grow into seventeen-million disease-carrying organisms⁹ in just eight hours. The lack of clean running water and waste (7)removal systems also increases the risk of (8)infection.
The Food and Agriculture Organization is leading an effort to make street food safer. Over the past fifteen years, it has helped officials improve street food in more than twenty cities worldwide.
For example, F-A-O officials have been working with the South African government on such a project. The U-N agency¹⁰ produced a food safety teaching¹¹ guide for public health officials. The guide offers suggestions on how to prepare food safely. A (9)videotape shows how producing safe food results in increased business. The F-A-O also helped publish books that food inspectors¹² will use to educate people who sell street food.
One F-A-O official says the project in South Africa has been so successful that officials in other African countries would like to copy it.
F-A-O officials and officials in Senegal have begun to (10)improve the safety of street food businesses in Dakar. A new market area is being built for the city. Businesses in the area will have waste (11)removal services and fresh water. Food sellers are being taught to keep cooked food away from uncooked food. The sellers also have been (12)urged not to prepare and sell food when they are sick.
One F-A-O official notes that sellers of street food products welcome the advice. She says they recognize that buyers will come back if they believe in the safety of the products.
This VOA Special English DEVELOPMENT REPORT was written by George Grow.

 

(1) diet[ 5daiEt ]n.通常所吃的食物, 会议
(2) estimate[ 5estimeit ]v.估计, 估价, 评估n.估计, 估价, 评估
(3) worldwide[5w:ldwaId, -5waId]adj.全世界的
(4) nutritious[ nju:5triFEs ]adj.有营养成分的, 营养的
(5) agriculture[ 5A^rikQltFE ]n.农业, 农艺, 农学
(6) bacteria[ bAk5tiEriE ]n.细菌
(7) removal[ ri5mu:vEl ]n.移动, 免职, 切除
(8) infection[ in5fekFEn ]n.[医] 传染, 传染病, 影响, 感染
(9) videotape n. 录像带
(10) improve[ im5pru:v ]v.改善, 改进
(11) removal[ ri5mu:vEl ]n.移动, 免职, 切除
(12) urge[ E:dV ]vt.催促, 力劝n.强烈欲望, 迫切要求v.促进

 

1 developing   

adj.发展中的

参考例句：

• Transport has always been the key to developing trade.运输一直是发展贸易的关键。
• They are developing marketing network.他们正在发展销售网络。

2 repeatedly   

adv.重复地，再三地

参考例句：

• The loudspeakers blared the speech repeatedly.扬声器里反复大声地播送那篇演讲。
• He repeatedly beat his foot upon the floor.他反复用脚敲着地板。

3 bacteria   

n.(单数bacterium)细菌

参考例句：

• Bacteria are invisible to the naked eye.细菌是肉眼看不见的。
• The biology of bacteria can be quite hard to understand.细菌生物学有时会很难理解。

4 united   

adj.和谐的；团结的；联合的，统一的

参考例句：

• The whole nation is closely united.全国人民紧密团结。
• The two men were united by community of interests.共同的利益使两个人结合在一起。

5 sellers   

n.卖者( seller的名词复数 )；卖方；销售者；销售商

参考例句：

• buyers and sellers transacting business 进行交易的买方和卖方
• All manner of hawkers and street sellers were plying their trade. 形形色色的沿街小贩都在做着自己的买卖。 来自《简明英汉词典》

6 storage   

n.存储器，储藏，保管，库存，仓库

参考例句：

• How much will you have to pay the warehouse for storage?你得付多少仓库保管费？
• He is charging a storage battery.他在为蓄电池充电。

7 formation   

n.形成，组成；形成物，结构；队形，排列

参考例句：

• This is the formation of a new government.这是新政府的构成。
• The aircraft are flying in formation.飞机编队飞行。

8 bacterium   

n.(pl.)bacteria 细菌

参考例句：

• The bacterium possibly goes in the human body by the mouth.细菌可能通过口进入人体。
• A bacterium is identified as the cause for his duodenal ulcer.一种细菌被断定为造成他十二指肠溃疡的根源。

9 organisms   

n.有机物( organism的名词复数 )；有机体；生物；有机体系

参考例句：

• The organisms can be divided into discrete categories. 有机体可分为许多互不相联的种类。
• The cell is the unit of which all living organisms are composed. 细胞是构成一切生物的单位。

10 agency   

n.经办；代理；代理处

参考例句：

• This disease is spread through the agency of insects.这种疾病是通过昆虫媒介传播的。
• He spoke in the person of Xinhua News Agency.他代表新华社讲话。

11 teaching   

n.教学，执教，任教，讲授；(复数)教诲

参考例句：

• We all agree in adopting the new teaching method. 我们一致同意采取新的教学方法。
• He created a new system of teaching foreign languages.他创造了一种新的外语教学体系。

12 inspectors   

n.检查员( inspector的名词复数 )；（英国公共汽车或火车上的）查票员；（警察）巡官；检阅官

参考例句：

• They got into the school in the guise of inspectors. 他们假装成视察员进了学校。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Inspectors checked that there was adequate ventilation. 检查员已检查过，通风良好。 来自《简明英汉词典》