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Manufactured Foods Case Study

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s outweigh the costs of producing food in this manner? Why or why not?
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Since the movement of people, food and manufactured goods can, and do, certainly have a negative impact on public health, steps should definitely be taken to reduce these flows. Foods and manufactured goods are most commonly grown or manufactured in another country and transported over to the United States. These foods and manufactured goods tend to get contaminated in this process due to either the area they are coming from, somewhere along the way of their transportation, or the human that is processing these foods or materials. Most of the diseases come from the individuals that manufactured or packaged these goods in the other countries before they even reach the United States. …show more content…

The increase of food borne illnesses through trade from one country to another is happening more often as more infections through humans happen. The increase of food borne illnesses is very serious and is not only spread through human interaction with the food, since humans from other countries can spread diseases while manufacturing or packaging these goods but also through chemical interaction. There are toxic chemicals that can come into contact with the food during the process and once they get into the food and transported to another country it is harder to control the disease once it has spread. The spread of these diseases are not only from the original country they came from and to the country they are received but also wherever the food or goods have been in contact with in between these locations. During the process of manufacturing there is what is called, cross contamination. This means that one type of food is packaged or manufactured with the same equipment as another type of food.

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