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It is believed that foodborne and waterborne diseases kill an estimated two million people annually including children, particularly in developing countries.

According to Oladimeji Agbolade, Head, Public Affairs,comprar camiseta de audax italiano, Sanofi Pasteur, Nigeria/Ghana, Unsafe food creates a vicious cycle of diarrhea and malnutrition threatening the nutritional status of the most vulnerable. He noted that food becomes contaminated at any point of production and distribution.

In order therefore to ensure food safety in Nigeria, Sanofi Pasteur along with its partner, Association for Public Health Professionals in Nigeria (APHPN), Lagos Chapter during the World Health Day, which was celebrated globally recently, came together to task stakeholders on the best way to keep food safe from the point where they are produced in farms to the point where they are eaten in plates.

Tagged Food Safety- From Farm To Plate, Make Food Safe ,nueva playera de inglaterra nike, the gathering had various panelists comprising of representatives of Sanofi Pasteur and some executives of APHPN, including its Chair, Dr. Oladoyin Odubanjo; immediate past Chair,numeros de camisetas de messi en el barcelona, Dr. Kofo Odeyemi; First Vice Chair, Dr. Tolu Olufunlayo; General Secretary,nueva camiseta del barcelona 2015, Dr. Solomon Oyetoyan. Others were the Permanent Secretary represented by the Director, Occupational Health Lagos State; Dr. Layeni-Adeyemo; the State Epidemiologist, Dr. Ismail Abdus-Salam and Food Industry Representatives/Food Safety Advocates.

The thrust of discussion at the forum was basically on the need for collaboration and communication among the various groups to ensure food safety in Nigeria. It was agreed that government and its various agencies, including public health, agriculture, education/research institutions and trade, professionals, food industry and civil society had a huge responsibility to ensure food were treated appropriately at various levels of processing.

Agbolade explained further that a large proportion of foodborne disease incidents were caused by foods improperly prepared or mishandled at home,camisa juventus italia, in food services establishments and markets.
Not all food handlers and consumers understand the roles they must play, such as adopting basic hygienic practices when buying, selling and preparing food to protect their health and that of the wider community , he said.

Expressing Sanofi s commitment to improve public health in Nigeria,camisa italia away 2013, Agbolade in his speech noted, creating a forum to raise awareness on the importance of preventing foods and water borne diseases, awakening all stakeholders from government, producers, providers and consumers on their role in ensuring sustainable food safety and provision of superior sand innovative vaccines for prevention of diseases will culminate to the achievement of our vision of a world in which no one suffers or dies from a vaccine-preventable disease.

Dr. Kofo Odeyemi, who explained that food processing involved taking the raw material through processes such as raw food/produce handling, cleaning, mixing, heat exchange, separation, concentration, drying, packaging and storing finished products,camisetas del real madrid por 20 euros, added that, areas of contamination in commercial food processing in factories are through cross contamination from other foods, contamination from machinery, poor storage and temperature control, unhygienic slaughter conditions.

She reiterated that food control measures and enforcement of sanitation is a must and this she said involved avoiding touching food with bare hands; appropriate preservation of perishable food and protecting food from dust, insects, rodents and other animals.
She said therefore that to address such issues, there was an urgent need for the provision of potable and good water supply, solid and liquid waste disposal methods at factory, good physical and chemical cleaning procedures of equipment, health education of food handlers on personal hygiene.
Attention must also be paid to food transport, storage and preservation. Contamination may be from the transport equipment, poor temperature,camiseta colombia 2014 online, pests and infestations. Food preservation ensures proper control of the number and kinds of microorganisms in food. These include heating (boiling,la camiseta de barcelona sc 2014, roasting), drying, freezing, salting, pickling,camiseta uruguay 2013 precio, fermenting, pasteurisation,camiseta de uruguay femenina, canning. Likewise public food premises must not be compromised on ,camiseta del barcelona sc 2013, she said. 相关的主题文章：


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