Food and water have always been culprits of many lethal illnesses globally. As the world moves to more industrialization and globalization, a wider spectrum of food-borne illnesses have emerged. In this lecture, Dr. Slauch introduced the nature of some of the organisms that cause food-borne diseases, possible remedies, and new emerging infections.
One of the oldest diseases that come from food consumption is typhoid and cholera. These diseases are transmitted through water, a vital component to food preparation. Dr. Slauch presented research that had been done tracing back to the 1800s in Philadelphia. At that time, there were 1,000 cases/year, and by 1906 the number of cases had reach 10,000 per year. However, once filtration and chlorination processes had been added to the water systems, numbers dwindled in just one or two decades to almost no cases. With historical evidence of the effects of filtration and chlorination, developing nations should use these methods in their water systems to prevent many unnecessary cases of deadly diseases that end up being more costly to care for than a change in basic infrastructure.
A new emerging issue with food production that Dr. Slauch presented is the role of globalization and food production and distribution. Food now is shipped all around the world. Just with food items in the US, 80% of fish/shellfish, 45% of fruits, 15-20% of vegetables, and 50% of nuts are imported. Over 99% of this food is left uninspected and untested, which can raise great concerns for food safety. In the 2007 E. coli outbreak in burgers, 940 people in the US became infected. When tracing back the production of these burgers, it was found that there were parts of the burger that came from 3 different states within the US, but there was also a part of the burger that was processed in Uraguay, making the E. coli source very difficult to determine.
The food industry has undoubtedly become a global entity, which makes it even more difficult to govern and ensure safety during consumption. The most easily applied method to lower the risk rate of most infections in all nations, however, is proper food handling and preparation, and this must be conveyed by furthering education on such procedures.
Although globalization has many benefits, there are side effects such as the spread of viruses. Because food and water are so vital to the survival of people, the spread of diseases via food can be detrimental. Taking precautionary actions such as adding simple filtration systems to water units is a productive way in decreasing the amount of contaminated water. Ensuring people have safe drinking water and nutritious foods helps keep the health of those intact.
ReplyDeleteGlobalization has had a large negative impact on our society especially when it comes to global health. The high transportation of goods has increased how fast diseases spread from country to country. This also causes for higher risk of disease and danger for the consumers. Food industry companies need to take good care of their products to protect its consumer.
ReplyDeleteIn class, professor have been mention have access clean water was very important, because it can affects one’s health. If one don’t have clean water. The lethal illnesses rate will goes up rapidly. The process of filtration and chlorination definitely a good way to give clean water to people as we see it from history. Taking the action start planning use the process of filtration and chlorination process in the developing countries can reduce unnecessary mortality rate. Give them have the opportunity to access clean water use in infant formula. So babies can get the nutritious they need and support their immune system.
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