Food Poisoning :: Health, Food Safety

IntroductionEvery year millions of people wound from viands poisoning due to uncontrolled application of agricultural chemicals, environmental contamination, use of illegal additives , microbiological hazards and others but as a result of increase awareness of consumers and their demands to provide them with safe, wholesome and high quality food give up force m any(prenominal) food premises to carry out a broad judgement and re-organize their forms of food control in turn to correct efficiency , rationalization of human resources and harmonizing approaches.This assessment of food control system has resulted to shift from the traditional approach which depends mainly on the final crossing sampling and inspection and move forward toward the implementation of a duty tour safety and quality approach based on put on the line compendium. (FAO, 1998) endangerment based approaches has been developed by World health organization (WHO) and fare and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and it is called fortune analysis .(WHO,2011)-websiteMoreover, risk analysis is a combination of three interconnected elements which are danger management, Risk assessment and Risk communication. (FAO/WHO training manual, 2006)Risk assessment is a scientific evaluation of risk associated with hazard either qualitatively or quantitatively .Risk management is the process where the relevant information of risk including risk assessment results are used to make decisions on how they will control the risk and implementing proper options.Finally risk communication which may define as the process by which exchange of information occur between risk assessors, managers and concerned parties.(http//www.fao.org/docrep/008/ae922e/ae922e04.htm)Government officialsIn order to prepare a food products that is safe for human consumption and trade within the country or worldwide as puff up as maintain public faith the government officials has a major theatrical role in this issue, yet it is transcend that the government has no role in the production of food and cannot by itself to make safe or unsafe food.However, the government does play cardinal important roles to reduce the risk of foodborne illness.The first major role is to fashion food standards and implement it through laws, regulations, inspection, and compliance procedures. These standards range from setting commandment to prevent food adulteration toward defining limits on the levels of pesticides residues as well as levels of pathogenic bacteria, food labelling, preparation and packaging of food. As a consequence, USDAs in recent times implemented HACCP system for meat and fowl to reduce harmful contamination and the risk of food borne illness. The second role is to address food safety problems that are beyond the control of any person participating in the food chain, which require more than a regulatory solution like for example E.