Lecture 9 Flashcards
Define food safety
scientific discipline describing handling, preparation, and storage of food in ways that prevent foodborne illness
define food defense
the effort to protect food from acts of intentional adulteration
food security
access by all people at all times to enough food for an active healthy life
How much money does foodborne illness cost annually in health care and related expenses?
152 billion
____ million people contract food borne illness in the US each year
48
Food Borne illness annual hospitalizations and deaths?
128,000 hospitalizations , 3,000 deaths
What fraction of foodborne disease deaths do children under 5 account for
almost 1/3
Food safety chain
Producer - Processor - Transport -Distributor - Preparer - Server - Consumer
Food safety chain
Producer - Processor - Transport -Distributor - Preparer - Server - Consumer
At what point of the food safety chain can food become contaminated?
Every single point of the chain
Food Animal Inputs
Pasture, Grain, Water, Minerals, Drugs, Vaccinations
Food safety system parts are all
dependent on one another
Four major trends creating food safety challenges
- Imported food supply
- consumers eating more minimally processed
- increased at risk populations (immunosuppression)
- consolidation of industry (amplify food risk)
Unfunded mandate to inspect foreign food processing plants
FDA Food Safety Modernization Act
What makes up the food safety triad?
Food Supply chain, consumer, regulator
Food Borne Illness Agents - Bacterial Pathogens
salmonella, campylobacter, E. Coli, listeria, clostridium, bacillus cerus, staph aureus
Food Borne Illness Agents - Bacterial Pathogens
salmonella, campylobacter, E. Coli, listeria, clostridium, bacillus cerus, staph aureus
Food Borne Illness Agents - Viral pathogens
norovirus, hepatitis A
Food Borne Illness Agents - Protozoan pathogens
toxo, crypto, cyclospora cayetanensis
Food Borne Illness Agents -Helminth
nematodes, cestodes, trematodes
Food Borne Illness Agents -prions
BSE
Food Borne Illness Agents - Toxins
plant, fungal
Food Borne Illness Agents - Marine
Tetrodotoxin (only one bolded on slide)
Food Borne Illness Agents - Allergens
wheat, soy, eggs, milk, peanuts, tree nuts, fish, shellfish, etc
Food Borne Illness Agents - Chemicals
heavy metals, melamine, pesticides, animal drugs, dioxins
1 illness causing pathogen
Norovirus
1 cause of foodborne illness death
Salmonella
