Food-Borne Illnesses In OSI Industries

There is need for International Corporation to come together to solve this problem because individual government of countries cannot handle it alone. The World Health organization requires that countries have the food surveillance program to monitor the food borne out borne disease outbreak in every county. The surveillance system uses electronic programmed computer to detect the presence of pathogens and bacterium which are microscopic in nature on items of food that pass across the border of every country. When the pathogen is detected in a food, such food item is banned and seized at port of entry of the

This case study, finalized and updated onto the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, talks about the Multistate Outbreak of Salmonella Wandsworth Infections Linked to Veggie Booty. Publishing this outbreak onto their website makes it very beneficial and helps the public realize the importance of food health. Food health is just as important as overall public health. It is essential because people need to consume food in order to live, and if their food is tainted or contaminated, it would cause health problems and sickness and in some extreme cases, death. Ensuring food health will overall promote public health in the long run.

Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) are an animal factory farm with an enormous number of animals that are contained in a confined area. These CAFOs feed their livestock corn, solely because it is cheap and makes them fat quickly. The high corn diet fed to cows result in more harmful E. Coli that are acid-resistant. Also, cows stand ankle deep in manure all day long with minimal room for movement. This increases the risk of contaminated products during the process of slaughtering and packing the meat. With the lessening of inspections from the FDA from 50,000 in 1972 to 9,164 in 2006 this puts society at a greater risk of consuming contaminated food. In the case of a recall, an immense number of products have to be brought back due to the mass production and the proximity of the animals in which the product was made. As the film illustrates, once this happens it is already too late for some. Children and elderly are put at an increased risk of death from illnesses due to E. Coli

Assume you’re at home your eating peanut butter and jelly sandwich. You turn on your television, and found out that the peanut butter you were eating was recalled. The new anchor explained that the brand that you consumed had E. coli. The anchor also explained the potential effects of E. coli bacteria. Later that day, you experience severe diarrhea, vomiting, and severe abdominal pain. The first thing that may come to mind is “What caused the E. Coli outbreak?” On the other hand, you may be thinking “Why didn’t the company take any precautions to reduce the potential outbreak? “The above questions are only important when evaluating the food industry. To reduce the food borne illness one follow the safest guidelines to protect public

Outbreaks of foodborne illness can be avoided by ensuring proper effective precautionary measures during the production process. The countries Canada imports from may have different irrigation practices, poor water cleanliness, and different export handling practices that are not regulated by the Canadian government. What

coli, another undisclosed truth comes to light in this documentary. To get rid of the E. coli, our meat products are thoroughly cleansed with ammonia. Ammonia is a chemical that most Americans recognize as a household cleaning item, and now this chemical is in our meat. We are being secretly exposed to this chemical and it is not even guaranteed to work 100% of the time. However, this is not the only chemical used in our food. When eating an out of season fruit, Americans run the risk of eating a fruit that is artificially ripened. Since tomatoes cannot grow in America in the winter, they are picked while green from overseas. Once they arrive in America and are ready to go to market, they are ripened with ethylene gas. Ethylene gas “contains traces of arsenic and phosphorus hydride” (Siddiqui). These traces can cause chronic health defects such as “vomiting, diarrhea with or without blood, burning sensation of the chest and abdomen, thirst, weakness, permanent eye damage, etc.” (Siddiqui). As we can see, the major food companies hide very serious issues from the public, because if they knew the truth, many consumers would be appalled and possibly stop buying their products.

As everyone knows, our food industry and even our government are there to keep the profits high not to teach us nourishments. But the question is, do half or the vast majority of us even know where our food is coming from? Are we aware of how it is being made? And what goes on in the food processing factories? The way it is being produced, handled, altered and later sold? And somewhat everything arising from our curiosity. These questions are what the majority of us are eager to get answered. This is a radical and surprising change to our food system. The food industry “used" to be more devoted with our health by implementing more safety inspections but, it is getting more and more negligible. The way big food industry companies improve it gives us the opposite impact. It worsen our society. It worsens us. Apart from our curiosity, we are now living in a phantasm/deceptive reality. People are so fed up with the food industry and its cheap cost, that they start forgetting about their own health.

About Foodborne Illness. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that 48 million foodborne illness cases occur in the United States every year. At least 128,000 Americans are hospitalized, and 3,000 die after eating contaminated food.(http://www.cdc.gov/foodborneburden/) Many people believe that eating their meat rare is healthy or many believe that eating Mcdonalds or Chick fill is healthy when all that comes to they're body is disease that the company does not tell you about. People in todays society are dying of food poisoning on the daily, other who eat an exhibit amount of food will eventually shorten their days alive and the people that eat a lot of fast food will eventually die because of the fat and chemicals put into the food that this fast food restaurant offer.

The globalization of food supplies needs safety standards for food production and processing. Historically developed states tend to the take the harder blows from the transmission of

”Every day in the United states, roughly 200,000 people are sickened by a foodborne disease, 900 are hospitalized, and fourteen die,” said Schlosser; these statistics are astonishing! These food borne diseases are a result of thousands of cattle sitting in their own feces contaminating each other with pathogens. Afterwards the infected cattle are then slaughtered and given to thousands of people in the country and even the world. On 2010, my mom made beef tacos for dinner. The next day all eight of us got food poisoning and started vomiting for four days. Since that day, when I eat beef my stomach doesn’t feel the same. As I read fast food nation, I learned that 50% of beef contain E. coli 0157:H7. When I was young I didn’t comprehend food

“In the United States of America, for example, around 76 million cases of food-borne diseases, resulting in 325,000 hospitalizations and 5,000 deaths, are estimated to occur each year.”

The Center for Disease control has estimated that illnesses directly resulting from food contamination cause approximately 76 million illnesses, 325,000 hospitalizations, and 5,000 deaths each year in the United States. The rise of food-related illnesses can be mostly attributed to increased eating out. Half of every dollar spent on food in this country is spend on food prepared outside of the home. As the amount of people involved preparing our food rises, so does the risk of contracting an illness from food (Levitt). The people at the greatest risk are the elderly, infants, pregnant women, and those with immune disorders; this high risk group comprises 25 percent of the US population. (Who).

Poultry in much of the developed world is now infected with salmonella. In Europe, 75% of chicken sold is infected and in the US 60%. It is estimated that the US has some 2,000,000 cases of food poisoning as the result of consuming salmonella costing $2,540 million annually. Even in relatively advanced countries like the United Kingdom the authorities admit that the food contamination problem is out of control stating: the multiplicity of potential routes of contamination makes the elimination of microbiological contamination from poultry being presented for slaughter a virtual impossibility. This need not be the case as has been demonstrated in Sweden. There it has taken 20 years of ruthless killing of any flock with a salmonella infection to achieve 99% of flocks free of salmonella. Poultry costs more as a result but the Swedish authorities and consumers clearly believe this is worth paying.

Foodborne pathogens are one of the major public health concerns in developing countries. In our target region, foodborne illnesses are common due to poor general hygiene, lack of professional equipment and inadequate food handling at home27. In Ethiopia, the average annual incidence level of foodborne illnesses is 5.8% and average death associated with diarrhea, the major symptoms caused by food related diseases, is 45%28. Common pathogens related with animal-origin food products are Salmonella spp. and Escherichia coli O157:H727.

According to foodborne disease Annual reports in New Zealand of 2014, about 524 cases (49.9%) of foodborne disease were recorded in commercial food operator settings like restaurants, takeaways, mobile stalls, supermarkets and other food outlet (Annual report concerning foodborne disease in New Zealand, 2014). This shows that there were high number of outbreaks reported in New Zealand related to food bacteria’s and micro-organisms.