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Personal hygiene

The cleanliness of people, including hands, clothing, footwear and hair.

Personal hygiene procedures

The things you need to do to make sure you do not contaminate dairy product with microorganisms like bacteria from your body.

Personnel

People.

Pesticide

A chemical that is used to kill pests like insects.

Petri dish

A clear dish with a fitting lid. Usually made of plastic, although some older ones are made of glass.

Ph scale

A scale that chemicals are measured against. The pH scale goes from 0 to 14. pH 7 is neutral. For example, water has a pH of 7, acids have a pH below 7, and alkalis have a pH above 7.

Phage

Simplified form of bacteriophage that is sometimes used instead of the word bacteriophage.

Phase

A physically distinct form of matter. For milk, we talk about two types of phases:
1.  Fat and water don’t mix, so we have a water phase and a fat phase.
2.  We also talk about the phases of solid, liquid, or gas.

PHE

Plate Heat Exchanger.


PID

Product Identification.



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