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The economic impact of food safety was first documented in the early 1900's. This was in response to scandals in the meat packaging and food processing industries. Again in the 1990's major concerns arose about E.coli and Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (commonly called mad cow disease) in the united states and united kingdom respectively. This initiated a rethink of the impact that food safety has on the global economy.   Below are ten (10) facts about food safety: 1. More than two hundred (200) diseases are spread through food. Millions of people fall ill every year and many die as a result of eating unsafe food. Diarrhoeal diseases alone kill an estimated 1.5million children annually, and most of these illnesses are attributed to contaminated food or water. Proper food preparation can prevent most foodborne diseases   2.  Foodborne diseases are increasing worldwide. Disease-causing organisms in food are transmitted far and wide by today's interconnect...

Hello,  I started a food safety blog in 2014. It was very fun at the time ... researching, writing, proofreading... After my first ten publications I changed roles at work and couldn't find the time to continue the blogging process. Today I decided to go back and look at my work and found that the blog had been removed. So, here I am trying to recreate my blogs from seven (7) years ago. I hope you enjoy them as much I did, and still do to a very large extent.      Food Safety, in simple terms, is a discipline that gives us the assurance that anything edible that we consume would not cause harm to us. It is a combination of more than one branch of science, including microbiology, chemistry, biochemistry, nutrition, food science and engineering.   According to the World Health Organization (WHO) food is said to be safe if it does not cause injury, the worst form of injury being death.   All food safety incidents can be grouped under one or more of the...