Food Safety and Foodborne Illness (WHO Fact Sheet No. 237)
This official WHO fact sheet provides basic information on food safety and foodborne diseases (FBDs), Food safety is an increasingly important public-health issue. Governments all over the world are intensifying their efforts to improve food safety. These efforts are in response to an increasing number of food-safety problems and rising consumer concerns. Foodborne illnesses are defined as diseases, usually either infectious or toxic in nature, caused by agents that enter the body through the ingestion of food. Every person is at risk. Foodborne diseases are a widespread and growing public-health problem, both in developed and developing countries.   (24/Oct/2006)
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