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hls-5217	Shrivastava, Saurabh R.; Shrivastava, Prateek S.; Ramasamy, Jegadeesh	World Health Organization calls for food safety and prevention of food-borne illnesses	2015	2	.pdf	application/pdf	1837	86	51	[Healthcare in Low-resource Settings 2015; 3:5217] World Health Organization calls for food safety and pre- vention of food-borne illnesses Saurabh R. Shrivastava, Prateek S. Shrivastava, Jegadeesh Ramasamy Department of Community Medicine, Shri Sathya Sai Medical College and Research Institute, Kancheepuram, India Introduction Globally, food plays a crucial role in ensuring human survival and promotion of optimal health.1 In fact, owing to the consumption of unsafe food, millions of people fall sick and many die. Thus, the World Health Organization (WHO) in the year 2000 adopted a resolution to acknowledge food safety as a public health priority.1,2 Further, WHO, in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), monitors the functions of Codex Alimentarius Commission (which formulates international standards for food safety) and of the International Food Safety Authorities Network (which provides timely information during food safety emergencies and assists nations in preventing similar incidents).2,3 In addition, WHO has also developed a Global Food-borne Infections Network to promote laboratory- based surveillance and encourage multi-sec- toral collaboration.2 A public health concern: food safety The supply and consumption of safe food plays a significant role in not only maintaining health standards of the population but even in supporting the process of continuous develop- ment of the nations through supporting the national economy via encouraging trade and tourism	cache/hls-5217.pdf	txt/hls-5217.txt