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Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academies...REPORT:

Improving Food Safety Through a One Health Approach - Workshop Summary

Released: September 10, 2012

“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. 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 workshop that examined issues critical to the protection of the nation's food supply.” ...

Please read more:  http://www.iom.edu/Reports/2012/Improving-Food-Safety-Through-a-One-Health-Approach.aspx