FAO The Future of Food Safety Conf Addis March 2019

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Ready access to safe and nutritious food is a basic human right. Yet every year around the world, over 420,000 people die and some 600 million people – almost one in ten – fall ill after eating contaminated food. In fact, foodborne hazards are known to cause over 200 acute and chronic diseases from digestive tract infections to cancer.
The ramifications of the cost of unsafe food, however, go far beyond human suffering. Contaminated food hampers socioeconomic development, overloads healthcare systems and compromises economic growth, trade and tourism. Opportunities of an increasingly-globalized food market are lost to countries unable to meet international food safety standards. Food safety threats