Illness from food-borne disease, which can lead to death, affects every country - http://www.empowher.com/search/site/country of the world, said the World Health Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organization, which are hosting the world's largest meeting of health, agriculture and trade regulators to tackle the problem.

"Food safety regulators of the world need to intensify their collaboration," the agencies said in a joint statement about the three-day meeting starting Tuesday in Bangkok.

"There are just too many threats to the safety of the world's food supply, from the farmer's field to the consumer's table," said Hartwig de Haen, assistant director-general of the Food and Agriculture Organization.

Some 300 experts from more than 100 nations will discuss how to strengthen food-control systems to protect consumers while minimizing costs to farmers, 구미출장마사지 - https://www.anmaweb.com/%ea%b5%ac%eb%af%b8%ec%98%a4%ed%94%bc%ea%b1%b8%e2... food processors and retailers, the agencies said.

The agencies said the global incidence of food-borne diseases, which include cholera, typhoid, food poisoning, hepatitis A and dysentery, is difficult to estimate, but that many people fall ill and die as a result of eating unsafe food.

"In industrialized countries, 30 percent of the people are affected by food-borne diseases annually, and the problem is likely to be even more widespread in developing countries," the agencies said.

In 2000, WHO said, 2.1 million people died from diarrheal diseases spread mainly by contaminated food and water. Most of the victims were children in the less developed countries.

But in the United States, 76 million cases of food-borne diseases resulting in 325,000 hospitalizations and 5,000 deaths are estimated to occur each year, WHO said.

It said threats to food, including improper handling and storage, can originate where crops are grown or animals are raised all the way up the chain to where and how it is prepared and cooked.

"While large food-borne outbreaks often receive the most public attention, the majority of the food-borne disease burden is linked to the many single cases occurring in all countries of the world," the statement said.

By Alexander G. Higgins