Food-borne Diseases

According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, norovirus is the leading cause of vomiting, diarrhea and food-borne illness in the United States.

Below we share the most common causes of food-borne diseases.

The Union Health Ministry on Thursday informed that the economic cost of food-borne diseases in India is estimated to be a whopping USD 15 billion. While wasting (21 per cent), underweighting (36 per cent), stunting (38 per cent) are common among children, at least 50 per cent of women and children suffering from anaemia, said the government.

A new study has indicated that there might be another way that salmonella bacteria may be finding their way into your salad vegetables- through their roots

Scientists, including one of Indian origin, have developed a new nanosensor to rapidly detect the presence of bacteria to help prevent food-borne diseases.

The collaboration will look for solutions for water and food-borne diseases, increase in percentage of women smokers as well as widespread epidemics such as dengue.

The researchers found that not only can harmful bacteria survive in dry foods, like cookie and cracker sandwiches, but they can also live for long periods of time.

Pathogens, like salmonella, can survive for at least six months in cookies and sandwich crackers, new research has found.

One out of every 10 people worldwide suffer from food-borne diseases annually, and children and the poor suffer the most, the findings of a World Health Organisation task force show.

Giving its first global estimates of preventable foodborne diseases, a WHO report called on governments and industry to improve inspections and control of the food chain from the fields and farmyard to the factory and the plate.

One-third of total global deaths caused by food-borne diseases are of children aged under five years, despite the fact that they make up only nine percent of the world's population, says a WHO report.

According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, norovirus is the leading cause of vomiting, diarrhea and food-borne illness in the United States.

Below we share the most common causes of food-borne diseases.

The Union Health Ministry on Thursday informed that the economic cost of food-borne diseases in India is estimated to be a whopping USD 15 billion. While wasting (21 per cent), underweighting (36 per cent), stunting (38 per cent) are common among children, at least 50 per cent of women and children suffering from anaemia, said the government.

A new study has indicated that there might be another way that salmonella bacteria may be finding their way into your salad vegetables- through their roots

Scientists, including one of Indian origin, have developed a new nanosensor to rapidly detect the presence of bacteria to help prevent food-borne diseases.

The collaboration will look for solutions for water and food-borne diseases, increase in percentage of women smokers as well as widespread epidemics such as dengue.

The researchers found that not only can harmful bacteria survive in dry foods, like cookie and cracker sandwiches, but they can also live for long periods of time.

Pathogens, like salmonella, can survive for at least six months in cookies and sandwich crackers, new research has found.

One out of every 10 people worldwide suffer from food-borne diseases annually, and children and the poor suffer the most, the findings of a World Health Organisation task force show.

Giving its first global estimates of preventable foodborne diseases, a WHO report called on governments and industry to improve inspections and control of the food chain from the fields and farmyard to the factory and the plate.

One-third of total global deaths caused by food-borne diseases are of children aged under five years, despite the fact that they make up only nine percent of the world's population, says a WHO report.