Improving Food Safety Through a One Health Approach: Workshop Summary

by Institute of Medicine, Board on Global Health, Forum on Microbial Threats

Globalization of the food supply has created conditions favorable for the emergence, reemergence, and spread of food-borne pathogens-compounding the challenge of anticipating, detecting, and effectively responding to food-borne threats to health. In the United States, food-borne agents affect 1 out of 6 individuals and cause approximately 48 million illnesses, 128,000 hospitalizations, and 3,000 deaths each year. This figure likely represents just...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309259339
• ISBN13: 9780309259330
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 418 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"