Foodborne diseases cause more than 420,000 deaths per year and cause losses of more than 95 billion dollars, the United Nations Organization (UN) reported on Tuesday as part of World Food Safety Day. and estimated that this problem affects the health of more than 600 thousand people.
The UN highlighted that each year 10% of people suffer from one of the 200 diseases caused by eating food in poor condition and that the cost of these ailments for public health systems is equivalent to that of malaria or HIVemphasized the portal of the United Nations Organization.
The The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) stressed that safe food is essential for human health and well-being and recalled that diseases due to contaminated food disproportionately affect vulnerable and marginalized people, such as women and children, and populations subject to conflict and migration.
The international day held this Tuesday seeks to mobilize actions to prevent, detect and manage the risks transmitted by food and improve human health since 10% of the world population suffers from a disease caused by eating contaminated food every year.
The UN emphasized that improving food safety and quality also reduces hunger, malnutrition and infant mortality, in addition to the fact that children miss fewer days of school and adults are absent less from work.
Every year, 600 million people get sick from contaminated food and 420,000 die.
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The agency explained that antimicrobial-resistant microbes can be transmitted through the food chain, by direct contact between animals and people or through the environment.
Diseases caused by foodborne parasites can cause acute and chronic health problems, and reports that the cases of the eleven main parasitic diseases reach 48.4 million a year, and that 48% of them are of food origin.
The WHO highlighted the risk of malnutrition and mortality due to the intake of harmful foods that children under five years of age have and specifies that this group represents 40% of the diseases transmitted by food, which causes the death of one in every person.
Diarrhea is one of the conditions that cause the most deaths in minors.
The WHO indicated that the health of animals, plants and the environment in which they are produced affect food safety, for which it advocated the adoption of a comprehensive approach that guarantees that all food that reaches the consumer is innocuous
