HUN 2201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Abdominal Pain, Chemotherapy, Miscarriage
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Immune function (at risk: young, elderly, pregnant women, people with aids or on chemotherapy or immunosuppressant drugs) Consumers and food borne illness enough toxin: most cases of food borne illness are caused by food prepared at home, consumers can, carefully handle, store, and prepare food, report incidents involving unsanitary, unsafe, deceptive, or mislabeled food. Recent federal changes to appropriate agencies: think of food as a possibility of terrorism, national food safety initiative. 1: goal: reduce food borne illness by improving us food safety practices and policies. Targets food safety from farm to table: fda food safety modernization act, focus: preventing food borne illness. Passed in 2011 in response to the continued threat from our food supply. Fda: inspection mandate and new legal powers. In soil, on our skin, on most surfaces in our homes, and in food: most are harmless, some are beneficial, and a few are pathogenic.
