Improving Food Safety Through a One Health Approach - Workshop Summary (Paperback)

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 the tip of the iceberg, because it fails to account for the broad array of food-borne illnesses or for their wide-ranging repercussions for consumers, government, and the food industry-both domestically and internationally. A One Health approach to food safety may hold the promise of harnessing and integrating the expertise and resources from across the spectrum of multiple health domains including the human and veterinary medical and plant pathology communities with those of the wildlife and aquatic health and ecology communities. The IOM's Forum on Microbial Threats hosted a public workshop on December 13 and 14, 2011 that examined issues critical to the protection of the nation's food supply. The workshop explored existing knowledge and unanswered questions on the nature and extent of food-borne threats to health. Participants discussed the globalization of the U.S. food supply and the burden of illness associated with foodborne threats to health; considered the spectrum of food-borne threats as well as illustrative case studies; reviewed existing research, policies, and practices to prevent and mitigate foodborne threats; and, identified opportunities to reduce future threats to the nation's food supply through the use of a "One Health" approach to food safety. Improving Food Safety Through a One Health Approach: Workshop Summary covers the events of the workshop and explains the recommendations for future related workshops. Table of Contents Front Matter Workshop Overview Appendix A: Contributed Manuscripts Appendix B: Agenda Appendix C: Acronyms Appendix D: Glossary Appendix E: Speaker Biographies

General

Imprint:	National Academies Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2012
First published:	2012
Authors:	Institute of Medicine • Board on Global Health • Forum on Microbial Threats
Editors:	Alison MacK • Rebekah Hutton • LeighAnne Olsen • David A. Relman • Eileen R. Choffnes
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	418
ISBN-13:	978-0-309-25933-0
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > Personal & public health > Dietetics & nutrition
LSN:	0-309-25933-9
Barcode:	9780309259330

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