07/04/2015
Key facts about FOOD SAFETY-
👉Access to sufficient amounts of safe and nutritious food is key to sustaining life and promoting good health.
👉Unsafe food containing harmful bacteria, viruses, parasites or chemical substances, causes more than 200 diseases - ranging from diarrhoea to cancers.
👉Foodborne and waterborne diarrhoeal diseases kill an estimated 2 million people annually, including many children.
👉Food safety, nutrition and food security are inextricably linked. Unsafe food creates a vicious cycle of disease and malnutrition, particularly affecting infants, young children, elderly and the sick.
👉Foodborne diseases impede socioeconomic development by straining health care systems, and harming national economies, tourism and trade.
👉Food supply chains now cross multiple national borders. Good collaboration between governments, producers and consumers helps ensure food safety.
Source: world health organisation
