Diseases of the virus, bacteria or food additives and other causes can enter the human body through a living creature, air and food. Center for Disease Control or CDC in the United States in recent outbreaks of illness from food imports is increasing, quoted by WebMD. Generally, materials that are the cause of this outbreak is a fish and spices, especially pepper, obviously Hannah Gould, PhD of the CDC in March.
The team from the CDC, headed by Gould analyzed the data of food poisoning outbreaks due to food imports in recent years (2005 to 2010), and during this five-year imports of food and 2348 caused 39 outbreaks of disease. Half of which occurred in the last two years. Gould warned, this finding is still too early to conclude as a trend, but should be wary and further monitoring is needed to avoid outbreaks of disease and food poisoning in the future.
In the study of fish known to be the cause of 17 outbreaks of poisoning, while the spice is responsible for 6 of the outbreak, five of which came from fresh or dried pepper. The findings that warrant concern is almost half of the food that caused the outbreak originated from Asia. Presumably the cause is due to a lack of security standards that meet the criteria in the shipping and handling then its possible contamination that causes toxicity or disease outbreaks.
Indonesia is one of the countries that import food quite a lot of other countries, including from other countries in Asia. Not only fish, but staple foods like rice, corn, soybeans and many fruits mainly imported from other Asian countries. With these findings, we should be more careful choosing fruit and vegetable imports and wherever possible use fresh fruits and vegetables that local production is more secure.
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