Canada's public and private sectors are not doing enough to prevent food-borne illnesses. 1
Among the major failings are inadequate active surveillance systems, an inability to trace …

© 2000 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors be posted. Another area where
improvement is clearly needed is in our ability to conduct trace backs (ie, to track food items …

Foodborne disease: How are we tracking? Page 1 Food New Zealand 26 NZFSSRC This
article has been written exclusively for the December issue of FoodNZ magazine, by the NZ …

Background and epidemiology: In Canada, summertime and eating home-prepared foods,
especially meats, are risk factors for contracting an enteric illness. Almost half (47%) of the …

Food poisoning affects many thousands of people every year, both in the United Kingdom
and around the world. Infections such as Campylobacter are often brought into the home …

Foodborne illnesses sicken and kill hundreds of thousands of people every year. As many
as 30 per cent of all infections in the last sixty years originated from pathogens transmitted …

Canadians can contract food-borne illnesses anywhere, from farmers' markets to grocery
giants. Our regulations have been successful, but they're geared toward the larger players …

1 The CDC recently published revised estimates of the incidence of foodborne illnesses in
the United States. The previous estimates by Mead et al.(1999) claimed that each year 76 …

Food risk will be “a defining issue of a 21st century marked by globalisation and foodborne
illness”, experts said in a foodrisk assessment symposium at the recent annual meeting of …

• Every year there are around 600 million cases of foodborne diseases and 420,000
deaths.(2)• Foodborne disease (FBD) has a global health burden comparable to malaria …