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Prevent Wastage
Bread wastage occurs once in every ten bread in our country.The economic loss of this wastage is almost 700 million dolars in a year.
The Ministry of Health’s report called ‘Healthy Diet and Food Wastage’ revealed the alarming degree of the bread waste.According to this report,bread wastage occurs once in every ten bread in our country and the economic loss of this wastage is almost 700 million dolars in a year.
In this report,which is prepeared by Refik Saydam Health Centre,it is pointed that 120 millions of breads are produced in a day in Turkey and 12 millions of them are wasted everyday.This waste causes a daily economic loss of 2.6 million dolars.Bread’s importance as a nourishment in our country is also underlined in this report.Besides warnings about healthy storage and consumption of bread,there are also some shocking figures in it:
Accordingly,about 44 billions breads are produced in a year in Turkey.%16 these breads are consumed at homes and 4 billions of them are wasted.Turkish people pay 7 billion dollars for bread in a year.The economic loss of bread wastage is nearly 700 million dollars in a year.In Turkey’s three leading big cities,bread wastage costs 750 millions TL in a day.Istanbul is the leading city in basis of bread wastage.600 000 breads are wasted in Ankara and İzmir while this wastage is 2 millions of breads in Istanbul.Bread consumption is more in the low income group and contrary to this,they waste less bread.As the level of income increases,wastage is more likely to be seen while consumption level is lower.According to the report,staling,which is caused by wrong storage of bread, is the most important factor of the bread wastage.Also economic disadvantages of wastage is underlined.
In the report,it is also underlined that workplaces with dining alls,hospitals,dormitories,boarding schools,hotels and restaurants are the foremost places of bread wastage as they make %70 of this loss.We will see some warnings and suggestions written in the report about preventing wastage:
A program which aims to prevent bread wastage should be implemented soon in hospitals, dormitories and all kind of dining halls.well planned production by considering demands, production of long life and quality breads,storage of breads in proper circumstances, minimizing the interval between baking and selling,packing breads,production of breads with low basis weights, serving bread sliced or in small round form in collective consumption areas and underselling of middle level stale breads are some of the precautions to be taken to stop bread waste.
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