Do Online Stores Assure Food Quality & Safety While Selling Grocery & Food Items?

Chase Grocery
Sep 4, 2018 · 2 min read

Online grocery shopping is a convenient option that is appropriate for busy lives. However, when the question arises to purchase foods and grocery items, consumers are worried about the freshness, quality, and safety of the food. It is a wrong myth of the buyers that purchasing foods from retail shops may be risky because of the food safety and quality. However, the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (FEHD) look after the food safety and hygiene while packaging the food and grocery products available in online stores.

Food Quality & Safety

Nowadays, along with spices and herbs, sterilized items, canned fruits and preserved raw fish and meats are available online. Buyers feel the risk in purchasing those items from online shops because of the lack of freshness. However, it is a wrong concept because ranging from raw meats, sashimi to sandwiches every food products are packaged by the microbiological method, which ensures the safety of the food items.

Control measures were taken by food departments for online stores

Bacteria are ubiquitous in the environment, which spoils the taste and smell of the food and grocery products. Bacteria and fungus can grow rapidly in 15 minutes in bread, raw meat and herbs. Therefore, the Food & Safety Department use special packaging system to pack the preserved and perishable foods with edible liquids, which helps the products to store in a safe way. The Center for Food Safety (CFS) looks after the importation of chilled/frozen meat and poultry products. When they import such products to online and offline store, they add medicinal preservatives and use other important methods to maintain the hygiene of the food items.

Therefore consumers do not need to think too much while buying frozen and canned items from e-stores. Some consumers have doubt on the quality of the grocery items and herbs while doing online grocery shopping. However, as per the Global Consumer Report, about 80% of e-stores sells fresh herbs and neatly packaged and high branded grocery items.

Final Thoughts

Today, buyers can download grocery shopping apps in Pakistan and other counties and order whatever they want with few clicks. If they have much doubt about the food and packaging safety then they should check the customer reviews, the reputation of the online store and the flexible methods of purchasing.

Chase Grocery

https://chase.pk Chase.pk is Pakistan's leading online grocery shop that hosts a wide range of products including edible grocery, frozen & fresh food, dairy pro

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