The Impact Of Reporting On Foodborne Diseases

There is need for International Corporation to come together to solve this problem because individual government of countries cannot handle it alone. The World Health organization requires that countries have the food surveillance program to monitor the food borne out borne disease outbreak in every county. The surveillance system uses electronic programmed computer to detect the presence of pathogens and bacterium which are microscopic in nature on items of food that pass across the border of every country. When the pathogen is detected in a food, such food item is banned and seized at port of entry of the

The food safety (General Food Hygiene) regulates 1995, 2005 and 2006 referring to the need of identify and possible risks surrounding food hygiene, and to put controls in place to ensure any risk is reduced. The regulations also specify how premises that provide food should be equipped and organised.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) are government agencies that coordinate with one another to ensure the safety of our nation’s food supply. For instance, the FDA is responsible for protecting the public health by assuring safety, effectiveness, quality and security of human/veterinary drugs, vaccines, and medical services. In addition, the FDA is also responsible for all cosmetics and dietary supplements, tobacco and products of radiation. There is a law in place, which has been recently signed by President Obama on January 4, 2001 called the Food Safety Modernization Act. This reformed food safety law is over sighted by the FDA agency to ensure that the U.S. food supply is safe, by focusing on ways to prevent contamination from previously reported

The book Poisoned by Jeff Benedict was not only enjoyable but also has a lot of information concerned food safety. The author writes chronologically a story about the Escherichia coli O157:H7 outbreak that took place in Washington State on 1993 because that event change the way American eating habits. The outbreak was confirmed by Dr, Phil Tarr after he was receiving many patient who were children under 10 years old, and had the same symptoms. The number of patient and the brutality of the symptoms leaded to Dr, Tarr to contact an old friend that they used to work together particularly in E.coli. Tarr's friend was John Kobayashi who has the high position in the Department on the public heath Washington State Public Department (Benedict, 2011).

•Objective 4.4: Protect agricultural health by minimizing major diseases and pests to ensure access to safe, plentiful, and nutritious food

The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) gives the FDA the power to inspect and regulate of food additives. Signed by president Obama, the act aims to ensure the food supply is safe by allowing the FDA have the power to regulate and inspect the food. The FSMA requires food facilities to list out the potential hazards of the food may distribute and what they are going to do to prevent and provide documentation. Also, to further help reduce food additives problems, consumers can inform their grocery stores and remove harmful food additive. By taking generally step to notify the store owners, it will inform and tell the FDA that there is a problem with food regulation that needs to be

On the first place, it is the responsibility of the CDC to stop and prevent further spread of food born disease. Stronger rules and regulations should be imposed by U.S. regulatory agencies for all food items sold and most importantly for frozen item, which are more prone for spreading food born diseases. Vendors should strictly follow general food safety measures and fines or punishment must be imposed according to the area/people affected.

The origins of current U.S. food regulation primarily date back more than 100 years to the Food and Drugs Act of 1906. Since then significant issues continue to exist and remain prevalent in the United States. In fact, Patrick Paul, member of the Natural Resources & Environment professes that in 2011, THE CDC&P (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) put a report issuing that an estimated, “more than forty-eight million Americans become sick from contaminated food every year, one hundred thousand people require hospitalization due to food contamination and three thousand die from food contamination.” (Paul, 2013) Much of today’s current food regulatory measures stem from the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996 (FQPA) as Paul notes. In

Nowadays, food safety is under the media spotlight both nationally and internationally. In Taiwan, we could keep having news reports on food safety scandals like the gutter oil scandal in September 2014, which many famous food brands were disclosed with the use of tainted oil in their products, to tea leaves with excess residual pesticide, during these two years. While in Hong Kong, there were cases like consuming puffer fish maws containing tetrodotoxin and prepackaged salad leaves suspected to be contaminated with salmonella. It is important to ensure the food safety as food is the psychological need for human survival and to prevent a mass outbreak of food poising in our

The new FDA Food Safety Modernization Act of 2010 (FSMA) was signed into law by President Obama on January 4, 2011. It aims to ensure the U.S. food supply is safe by shifting the focus of federal regulators from responding to contamination to preventing it rather than relying primarily on reacting to problems after they occur. Everyone play a role in ensuring safe food from field to fork. The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) is the major inspection and reorganize of United State food safety practice since 1938. This is a big change to US food system, since the new regulations are not just for farms, but facilities that process food for people to eat. These new regulations are important for the food and Drug Administration to get these regulations right, thus that they improve food safety.

Food borne illness is a big issue in the United States. Each year up to 5,000 people die from foodborne illness… something that plays a role in foodborne illness is boxing labels such as expiration dates. Another thing that is another big part in foodborne illness is the way it processed or cooked. When the government monitors food safety, there are fewer foodborne illnesses that make people sick.

If the government were to get more involved in the meatpacking industry, the United States of America would have less outbreaks of foodborne illnesses.  The problem with E.coli, along with other foodborne illnesses start inside of the feedlots.  At this point, there are at least 250 known foodborne illnesses, which are mainly infections that are caused by bacteria, viruses, and parasites in the meat.  In America, each state gets to decide for themselves, which diseases they have the public health department look for in their food.  Instead, the government should be checking for all possible diseases in the food throughout the country.  Due to the lack of inspections, Eric Schlosser states that "{e}very day in the United States, roughly

Food is an essential constituent in human life. Nevertheless, some foods can be detrimental to a person’s organism by causing life-threatening diseases. For that reason, food safety comes into play. Food safety is a scientific discipline describing handling,

Food poisoning cases can be very simple to the severe. From past two weeks, several people have been admitted to the hospitals. They are having gastrointestinal infection issues. The office is taking this matter seriously. They are talking with all the federal, state and local public health agencies. Private,

Food contamination is a serious issue because it results in foodborne diseases. Hence, awareness of potential sources of food contamination is an important component of good nutrition.