Experts said the foodborne disease is the number one food safety problem

Experts said the foodborne disease is the number one food safety issue, China's center for disease control and food safety nutrition researcher Liu Mei said : Foodborne disease is the number one food safety problem. This reporter was held today in the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Engineering Technology Forum -- "China Food Safety Forum" in the to the news. Any feeding through into human pathogens, and people suffering from infectious or toxic diseases, collectively known as the foodborne illness. Cause foodborne disease outbreaks main factors microorganisms, chemicals, and many other animals and plants. It is learned that in China, microbial food poisoning reached the top, catering units (collective canteens, guesthouses, Hotel) unit responsible for the poisoning of more than 60%, and animal food is the main cause of food poisoning, which, meat and meat products accounted for 20%, aquatic products account for 10%. Liu Xiu, eating aquatic products of Vibrio parahaemolyticus and parasites The cooked meat L. monocytogenes and Salmonella bacteria, raw vegetables of EHEC, Dairy of staphylococcal enterotoxin and infant food of Enterobacter sakazakii and Salmonella and other biological hazards should be departments focus on the control of the object. As food safety issues that directly threaten the health of consumers, likely to result in major economic loss, even lead to international food trade disputes and political consequences. Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention nutrition and food security of Sciences, Chen stressed, Our consumers and the government should have a correct understanding of food safety issues, the elimination of the following misconceptions : Consumer food requirements "zero" risk; too much emphasis on chemical pollution, to the neglect of foodborne disease; generally put fake and shoddy food safety plan, such as pollution of carcinogens in the food equivalent carcinogenic food; unqualified food equivalent to the poisonous food.