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WHO's Food Safety message on World Health Day 2015

On April 7 being World Healh Day, WHO's simple message is to ensure food consumed is safe.

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April 7 being World Healh Day, the World Health Organization's simple message is to ensure food consumed is safe.

According to WHO, unsafe food can cause more than 200 diseases ranging from diarrhoea to cancers. Such food can contain viruses, harmful bacteria or chemical substances. Undercooked foods of animal origin, fruits and vegetables contaminated with faeces, and shellfish containing marine biotoxins are detrimental to one's health.

“Food production has been industrialised and its trade and distribution have been globalised,” states WHO Director-General Dr Margaret Chan in a press release. “These changes introduce multiple new opportunities for food to become contaminated with harmful bacteria, viruses, parasites, or chemicals.”

Ensuring food is clean and safe is not just good for the community but a precaution against health crisis internationally.

“A local food safety problem can rapidly become an international emergency. Investigation of an outbreak of food borne disease is vastly more complicated when a single plate or package of food contains ingredients from multiple countries,” stated Chan.

WHO states implementing the following key factors can help ensure food safety:

- Promoting food safety
- Practising safe food hygiene
- Learning how to take care when cooking specific foods that may be hazardous (like raw chicken)
- Reading the labels when buying and preparing food. 

Watch: WHO's Food Safety - the Global View

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