There are great variations in the sanitary practices at places serving food. It can differ from place to place in different countries as well as within us itself. While traveling to unknown places, it is advisable to do search on the internet the place one wants go, predetermining how one shall be going and the places one is going to visit and most important is where one is going stay and dine.

With the necessary search at hand one can plan every thing before scheduled departure and move accordingly. There are some very sensitive persons who feel dreadful on hearing the name of traveling and are very afraid of falling sick due to food or water.

There is necessity of taking precautions, when visiting a remotely situated place lacking proper sanitation conditions, which can be cause of food borne diseases. Therefore one should stay and dine at nearest tourist location, where there is surety that the food shall be prepared observing sanitary conditions. One should at all costs avoiding taking of food at places, where the maintenance of sanitation conditions is poor.

There are travelers wishing to experience the food and culture of the place they are visiting, are taking risk with the food, they are going to eat there. The native people are accustomed to native organisms and are actually careers of these organisms, which are harmless to them, but a person from a country, where excellent sanitation is maintained, has no immunity to these organisms loitering free in the food and drinking water and has capability of producing the disease symptoms in such a person.

The natives have acquired resistance after a long period of time, when initially many people suffered disease and either dies or survived building natural immunity to the local variety of bacteria. Following is the advice for outside persons visiting such a remote area:

Follow the advice of dining in the tourist area only, since they maintain higher sanitary conditions, considering the liking and the nature of their customers.

Do not buy eatables from street vendors, because they do not practice the safety measures in respect of preparing food articles, because they are vulnerable to get contaminated with bacteria, if the storage conditions of cooked food are not maintained, staleness sets in, whereas one should eat food which is freshly prepared or stored maintaining the conditions and reheating it at the time of serving.

The street vendors are offenders of basic sanitary laws and are unregistered and are not covered under regulations. Even some of the native people do not prefer eating meals from street vendors.

While on traveling one should restrict the diet to small portions, because eating heavily the contaminated food is invitation to sickness. With smaller portion of food the body some how manages to counter the effect of les number of organisms present

While traveling drink only treated water, avoid use of ice in the water or cold drinks, because ice is prepared from untreated water. Another source of probable infection is from eating uncooked vegetables as salads. The raw vegetables and fruits should be eaten after peeling them. Do not take milk, which is not pasteurized. Also avoid other dairy products like cheese and yogurt. The pasteurized milk is also liable to contamination after opening or improper storage conditions. Do not eat raw egg products, or meat and sea food not properly cooked.

The food, which has been cooked and remained at room temperature for several hours is also likely to get contaminated and is harmful for eating. The situation is such at places; where there is no refrigeration facility to keep the cooked food and serving it after properly reheating it.

One should properly wash the hands before eating so that the microbes sticking to the hands after unknowing touching surfaces harboring potential infection micro-organisms.

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