31^st European Nutrition and Dietetics Conference

Food Borne illnesses and food safety Methods

Food borne illness is caused to due to contaminated food or food spoiled due to pathogenic microorganisms due to which an infected individual will suffer from fever, vomiting, diarrhea etc. The illness to the body can also be caused due to chemicals or toxins which will be present in the food. Till date more than 250 food borne illnesses have been identified around the world and in the United States of America around forty-eight million people suffer from food borne illness every year. Hence it is necessary to improve proper and efficient food safety methods to decrease the rate of uptake of people suffering from food borne illnesses.