2024年11月19日 · Foodborne diseases are reflected in several targets of Sustainable Developmental Goal 3 and are a priority area within the Organization’s work. Activities include research and independent scientific assessments of food-related hazards, foodborne disease awareness programs, and helping to promote food safety through national health-care programs.

2024年10月4日 · Major foodborne illnesses and causes. Foodborne illnesses are usually infectious or toxic in nature and caused by bacteria, viruses, parasites or chemical substances entering the body through contaminated food. Chemical contamination can lead to acute poisoning or long-term diseases, such as cancer.

Around the world unsafe food is known to cause more than 200 acute and chronic diseases. In 2015, WHO published the first-ever estimates of global burden of foodborne diseases, which indicated that the 31 hazards examined were responsible for 600 million cases of foodborne diseases in 2010, resulting in 33 million disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), including 420 …

2015年12月3日 · More than one third (34%) of all deaths from foodborne diseases are in children under the age of 5 years, despite the fact that they make up only 9% of the global population. This is among the findings of WHO's<i> Estimates of the global burden of foodborne diseases</i> – the most comprehensive report to date on the impact of contaminated food on health and …

2019年11月26日 · Foodborne infections caused by resistant bacteria, such as Salmonella and Campylobacter spp., pose a particular risk to human beings because of possible treatment failure. Resistant commensal bacteria, such as Escherichia coli and Enterococcus spp., also pose a risk, as they can carry resistance genes that can be further transferred to human ...

2015年12月1日 · The World Health Assembly (WHA), through Resolution WHA73.5, mandated the World Health Organization (WHO) to regularly monitor and report to Member States on the global burden of foodborne and zoonotic diseases at national, regional, and international levels and measure the impact of the WHO Global Strategy for Food Safety 2022-2030.

2024年6月7日 · Each year, an estimated 600 million people fall ill and 420 000 people die from unsafe food, resulting in the loss of 33 million healthy life years (DALYs). Children under 5 years of age are at particularly high risk, with 125 000 children dying from foodborne diseases every year. These illnesses and deaths are largely preventable.

2019年12月23日 · Foodborne diseases are a widespread and growing public health problem, both in developed and developing countries. In 2000 the World Health Assembly recognized that the prevention and control of foodborne diseases is an important public …

to control or prevent foodborne diseases. The objectives of the surveillance and response system in stage 1 in relation to foodborne diseases are to: monitor trends of syndromes that might indicate foodborne illness (e.g. geographical distribution of syndrome, seasonality); detect and respond to foodborne events, to allow rapid implementation

2021年6月7日 · It also aims to foster harmonization of methodologies for estimating foodborne disease burden across countries. The goal of a national burden of foodborne disease study is to rank and prioritize foodborne diseases based on their overall public health impact in the population. The objectives of such a study are to: