World food safety day celebrated on 7 june which aims to draw attention and inspire action to help prevent, detect and manage foodborne risk.

So what you know about foodborne risk or foodborne diseases.

Is your food safe to eat?

Ok, our tody topic is foodborne diseases so lets talk about this

Foodborne illness is any illness resulting from the spoilage of contaminated food, pathogenic bacteria, viruses, or parasites that contaminate food and toxin such as aflatoxin in peanuts, poisonous mushrooms, and various species of beans that have not been boiled for at least 10 minutes.

Major foodborne illnesses and causes

Bacteria:

• Salmonella- this present mainly in eggs, poultry, and other animal origin products
• Campylobacter- this mainly caused by raw milk, raw or uncooked poultry, and drinking water.
• Enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli- this is mainly associated with unpasteurized milk, undercooked meat, and fresh fruits & vegetables.

these pathogen symptoms are fever, headache, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, and diarrhea.

• Listeria- Infection leads to miscarriage i pregnent women or death of newborne baby. Listeria is found in unpasturized dairy products and various ready to eat foods and can grow at refrigeration temp.
• Vibrio cholerae- It infects people through contaminated water or food. Symptoms like abdominal pain, vomiting, and profuse watery diarrhoea.

Antimicrobials, such as antibiotics, are essential to treat infections caused by bacteria.

Viruses

Norovirus infections are characterized by nausea, explosive vomiting, watery diarrhoea. Hepatitis A virus can cause long lasting liver diseases and spread through raw and undercooked seafood or contaminated raw produce.

Prasites

Some parsities such as fish-borne trematodes, are only transmitted through food. Parasites such as ascaria, giardia enter the food chain through water or soil.

Chemicals

• Naturally occurring toxins includes mycotoxins, marine biotoxims, cyanogenic glycosides and toxin occur in posionous.
• Heavy metals like lead, cadmium and murcary cause neurological and kidney damage.

Key facts

• Unsafe food contain harmful bacteria, viruses, Parasities or chemical substances, cause more than 200 diseases- ranging from diarrhoea to cancer.
• An estimated 600 million- almost 1 in 10 people in world- fall ill after eating contaminated food and 420000 die every year, resulting in the loss of 33 million healthy life years.
• foodborne diseases impede socioeconomic development by straining healthcare system, and harming national economies, tourism and trade.

WHO five key of safer food

• Keep clean
• Separate raw and cooked food
• Cook thoroughly
• Keep food at safe temperature
• Use safe water and raw materials

so, always eat safe, hygenic and healthy food.

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