Sentences with phrase «from food borne diseases»

We generally recommend feeding cats only meats that have been cooked, especially if any humans are at higher risk from food borne diseases.

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He described the process of tracking the outbreak to Jindi as «an important piece of investigative work» that involved obtaining detailed food histories from victims, multi-jurisdictional intelligence from the federal government's food - borne diseases surveillance unit, OzFoodNet, and bacterial DNA «fingerprinting» to determine the exact strain of listeria.

From animal disease outbreaks, to accidental contamination, food - borne illnesses, and concerns over the provenance or ingredients of foodstuffs, food crises of one form or another are seemingly a regular occurrence.

Now that we are doing the roads in all those areas, there is more cocoa being evacuated to the ports, you can send fertilizer to the farmers so that you can increase their productivity, more food can come to the market, which means food can become cheaper, people now have access to clean drinking water, which means people will be prevented from having all these water - borne diseases for which they go to hospital and overburden our NHIS.

There is no risk from handling or eating food — it's not a food - borne disease.

In this episode, Scientific American news editor Phil Yam discusses how veterinarians, physicians and multinational food companies need to work together in the global fight against animal - borne infectious diseases; and University of Wisconsin evolutionary biologist Sean Carroll talks about recent research tracking the evolution of yeast genes with specific functions descended from a single, duplicated gene with multiple functions.

One of 100,000 children is born with Menkes disease, a genetic disorder that affects the body's ability to properly absorb copper from food and leads to neurodegeneration, seizures, impaired movement, stunted growth and, often, death before age 3.

This article is based on what I learned about foods derived from GMO and why it is widely believed to be one of the prevalent reasons the incidence of cancer and other metabolic diseases in dogs and cats are vastly on the rise (statistically, more than 50 % of dogs and cats born in the last decade will die from cancer).

Several diet - related diseases, which I term «nutrogenic» diseases, as distinct from food - borne illnesses, have been documented in dogs and cats.

Examples include greater likelihood of injury, disease, and death due to more intense heat waves and fires; increased likelihood of under - nutrition resulting from diminished food production in poor regions; risks from lost work capacity and reduced labor productivity in vulnerable populations; and increased risks from food - and water - borne diseases.

1.2.2 Injury, illness, and death from extreme precipitation 1.2.3 Vector -, food -, and water - borne disease 1.2.4 Respiratory problems and disease 1.3 Many public health officials are aware of these risks, but the public is not.

-- HEALTH: Major increases in health problems are likely, with more illnesses and injury from heat waves and fires and more food and water - borne diseases.

Given the extreme sensitivity of insects to temperature, even a slight warming, the panel suggests, could lead to significant disruption in food supplies from insect - related crop damage as well as to a surge in the spread of insect - borne diseases.

Last month, Howard Frumkin, who directs the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Environmental Health, testified before a Senate committee that the CDC «considers climate change a serious public health concern» that could accelerate illnesses and deaths stemming from heat waves, air pollution, and food - and water - borne illnesses.

• reducing the risk of major killers like heart disease, stroke and cancers while cutting exposure to food borne pathogens; • offering a viable answer to feeding the world's hungry, through more efficient use of grains and other crops; • saving animals from suffering in factory farm conditions and from painful slaughter; • conserving vital, but limited freshwater, fertile topsoil and other precious resources; • preserving irreplaceable ecosystems, such as rainforests and other wildlife habitats; • mitigating the ever - expanding environmental pollution of animal agriculture; and the list goes on.

While that may not exactly do enough to make your mouth water for a Cold Cut Combo, it's important to note that the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 76 million people in the US get sick each year from food - borne illnesses.

Once a food borne illness outbreak occurs in several states, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention steps in to warn the public and take action to prevent the public from harm.