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Conversation Questions on Food Safety

1)

What springs to mind when you hear the word ‘food safety’?

2)

What food safety issues do hear or read about in the news?

3)

Do you think food is becoming more or less safe to eat?

4)

Are you concerned about where the food you eat comes from?

5)

Do you understand the jargon of chemicals and E numbers that are a common in the ingredients part of food labels?

6)

How sure are you your government is in control of the quality of food for sale in your supermarkets?

7)

Do you worry about chickens with flu, mad cows or polluted fish?

8)

Do you think it is safer to eat out or at home?

9)

How safe do you think fast food is?

10)

Is there any food that scientists have not warned us against?

1)

Do you ever think that the food you eat is not safe?

2)

If you were offered a job to be an astronaut, would you take it?

3)

Do you think restaurant staff always wash their hands and chopping boards?

4)

Do you ever eat food that has gone past the eat-by / expiry date?

5)

Have you ever had food poisoning?

6)

Food safety in China is often in the news. Is this a concern for you?

7)

Do people in your country try to put dangerous things in food on supermarket shelves, hoping others will get ill or die?

8)

How safe is safe? Do you think we worry too much?

9)

Do you think genetically modified food is 100% safe to eat?

10)

Are you happy with the quality of the water that comes out of your taps?