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food safety
type: Concept

food safety
type: Concept
creator: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2195-3997
is replaced by: food safety
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broader: deprecated concept
definition: [Olanrewaju O. Olotu] Food safety is a global issue of increasing concern for governments, food producers and food handlers, as well as consumers. Safe and wholesome food supplies play a key role in ensuring the health of populations worldwide. Fermented foods play very important roles especially in the socio-economic and health promoting aspects of people in developing countries... , "[Geetanjali Kaushik] Food safety is an area of current concern in view of contamination of food commodities withxenobiotics such as heavy metals, pesticides, mycotoxins, and residues of veterinary drugs. Thetoxic pesticide residues present in the food can interact with essential minerals thereby affectingtheir bioavailability for the human body. Chlorpyrifos is one of the world?s most widely usedorganophosphorus pesticides in agriculture, especially in developing countries... , "[J›rgen Schlundt] Food safety is an important part of public health linking health to agriculture and other foodproduction sectors. For over a century, developments in food production and new control philosophieshave contributed to food safety systems in most developed countries perceived by many to beefficient in the prevention of foodborne disease. Nevertheless, a number of problems still remaindominant, one of these being the high level of foodborne microbiological diseases which seem, forsome pathogens, to have increased over the last decades...
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