Food safety and security

FOOD SAFETY

1. FOOD SAFETY AND SECURITY FOOD SAFETY.. This refers to the foods staffs which are free from causing any danger or harm to the members of any given community. FOOD SECURITY.. this refers to a situation when the community has sufficient/ enough healthy food staffs for all its members. So food safety and security refers to access to healthy and sufficient amount of nutritious food that can sustain life and promote good health (according to WHO fact sheet 2017)

2. Key factors. Unsafe food containing harmful bcteria , viruses, parasites or chemical substances, causes more than 200 diseases ranging from diarrhoea to cancer. An estiment of 600 million almost 1 in 10 people in the world fall ill after eating contaminated food especially in developing countries, and 420,000 die every year. Children under five years of age carry 40% of the foodborne disease burden with 125,000 death every year. diarrhoea diseases are the most common illness resulting from consumption of unsafe foods.

3. Cont… In children especially under five years of age unsafe food on additional to diseases, results into retarded growth, poor immunity and poor weight gain. Food safety, nutrition and security are inextricably linked. Unsafe food creates a vicious cycle of disease and malnutrition, particularly affecting infants, young children, elderly and sick.

4. Cont….. Foodborne diseases impend social economic development by straining health care system and harming national economies tourism and trade. Food supply chain now cross multiple communities and national borders to ensure good collaboration between governments, producers and consumers to ensure food safety and security.

5. Steps of ensuring food safety and security. This can be under 3 categories. POLICY MAKERS can……… Build and maintain adequate food system and infrastructures like laboratories to respond to and manage food safety risks along the entire food chain including during emergencies. Foster multi sectoral collaboration among public health, animals health, agriculture and other sectors for better communication and joint actions.

6. Cont… Integrated food safety into broader food policies and programmes e.g nutrition and food security. Think globally and act locally to ensure the food produce domesticallybe safe internationally.

7. Food handlers and consumers can….. Know the food they use. Handle and prepare foods safely. Grow foods, vegetables and fruits that are healthy to human life. Know how to use and handle and preserve different foods. Know the dangers of nutritional imbalance especially among children.

8. Family income generation activities Family income generation activities refers to programs that support and promote in order to help vulnerable populations cover their basic needs and food supplies in a sustainable manner through income they produce. The programmes should permit a n improvement in the families’ economic situations through an increase in the household’s purchasing power.

9. The promotion of IGA Taking advantages of knowledgeable individuals in the community. Encourage unity among members of the community to mobilize enough labor. Specialization and division of labor. Strengthening and creation of market for products. Uniting a large quantity of product can increase sales possibilities. Having limited representatives for mgt.

10. Cont ….. Aim at expanding the program horizontally and vertically.

11. Advantages of IGA It improves purchasing power of the family and community. Improves access to health services. Can improves the nutritional status of the family and the community. Can improve the standards of living of individual, family and community. Establish market for community products. It can improve oneness of the community and the security.

12. Thank you.