Dirty food kills about 140 000 people every year, and leaves 91 million more suffering from diarrhoea, tapeworm, hepatitis and even dysentery and typhoid in Africa.
Many of the pathogens and foods at the centre of the crisis also strike elsewhere around the world. Listeria in processed meat products from South Africa, E. Coli in romaine lettuce in the U.S., Salmonella in eggs across Europe and Campylobacter in chicken liver pâté in Australia. These are some of the recent food safety crises worldwide, estimated to impact as many people as infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS, malaria and TB.continue reading
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