Food+Safety

Anthony A. Greg H. Mike L. Jon B.

Food Safety

Intro: Due to the increase of globalization food from all over the world has been transported and shipped. If willing to, anyone is able to inject defects or disease into the food. Due to this, food safety and organizations supporting this cause have evolved immensely over the years in many countries. New __jobs__ have succeeded the government decision to enforce regulation and institute new ones in connection with food safety.Challenges including viruses, diseases, etc. have humans fearful of eating food from countries without any regulations or laws. Therefore, the USA and international community have increased their efforts to keep food safe while decreasing all the challenges and increasing all possible opportunities.

===__How does globalization effect food safety____? What challenges and opportunities are presented in a globalized world that relates to food safety? To minimize challenges and maximize opportunities what policies or actions should the international community chase?__===
 * Over-Arching Question:**

= __**Questions:**__ = = __**Challenges**__ =
 * How can the FDA prevent contamination on all imports?
 * ====How does globalization raise Food Safety fears? ====
 * How are job opportunities created by the increase of awareness for food safety?
 * What types of jobs are created from food safety and why?
 * How does globilization and consumption of foods from other countries raise awareness of food safety?

Links:
__ http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/wrs011/wrs011i.pdf __ //Refers to food born illnesses and diseases.// //Consumers are concerned about disease originating in other countries being transported internationally by food//

[] //This website describes contanimation and how to avoid it along with mad cow disease. Also shows what is being done to make the food we eat __safe__.//

[] //This website shows everything about bottled water safety. Including bottled water rules and regulations.//

[] //This website shows a graph which includes import violations for all imports.//

[] //Also shows the same graph but describes the graph more in depth.//

[] //This shows contaminets on imported foods. Also the lack of traceability.//

[] //This short article speaks about fears arising from new upcoming countries sending food to western countries and the need for more food regulations in order to keep the food healthy and without disease.//


 * General Facts/Summary**
 * Estimated 76 million food-borne illnesses
 * 325,000 hospitalizations annually due to infections
 * Roughly 5,000 deaths annually


 * Globalizing Food Safety Challenges**

Globalization of our Food Supply results in such food being processed through several different areas and countries that all have different rules and regulations. Food is also traveling through many different environments and climates which provide an exceptional incubation environment for pathogens, viruses, bacteria, and parasites. What has been a very large recent outbreak of the Noro-Virus, this virus can be easily transmitted through food. That is the likely cause of its most recent major outbreak. Finally, when workers in a foreign nation are in out a vast open field gathering food, there are no bathrooms or sinks nearby. When they have to go, they go. Where do they wash their hands? They don't. The amount of pathogens on your hands is a staggering amount, hovering around well above the trillions of particles. Washing your hands can reduce that number as much as two decimals places, however many are still left. Estimating an average of possibly 100,000,000 left after hand-washing, it only takes 1-10 particles to make someone sick. Unfortunately, the number is exponentially higher because they //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">don't // wash their <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">hand. Here at Walmart, I Michael Duke previously being the head of international operations and <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">currently the CEO, make it my personal priority to maintain Food Safety. As the largest grocer in the <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">world, Walmart serves customers and members more than 200 million times per week at more than 8,400 <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">retail units under 55 different banners in 15 countries. With annual sales reaching $405 billion and two <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">million employees, any change in Walmart policies has major implications for the worldwide environment <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">and the global food system. As I said in an interview, No other retailer in the world has the ability to make <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">more of a difference than Walmart. Through sustainable agriculture, Walmart is uniquely positioned to <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">make a positive difference in food production--for farmers, communities and customers. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Myself, Kevin Concannon, as agriculture undersecretary and a former director of state Health and Human Services departments in Maine, Oregon and Iowa, I know the importance of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as food stamps. I have had a large focus on safety on beef. I consider lean finely textured beef product to be safe, lean and cheaper than some other ingredients used to make hamburger. I have noted that USDA has given school districts a choice about whether or not to buy meat that includes the lean textured beef treated with ammonia for food safety reasons. Schools have been buying about 60 percent of their beef through USDA. Several hundred school districts had asked for the choice beef. As I discovered when I visited a food-bank in Portland, Maine, safety plays a very important role when it comes to food. In the case that hundreds of people are coming to one place for food, food safety has to be present. I noticed that all the workers not only washed their hands very often, but they also wore gloves to be safe. Also for each food, there was one single utensil to ensure mixing foods. When foods get mixed, allergies can become very severe just because of one utensil. The food bank was also very organized on how to get your food. Instead of everyone running around and skipping people, there was one single file line which excluded confusion. Confusion in orders can cause people to get the wrong orders which can lead to allergy attacks and more severe accidents. All customers of this food bank had to eat with utensils and must clean up their area when done eating. All condiments were in single packages, not dispensers which didn’t allow any bacteria to get from counters onto dispensers, which can end up in someone’s mouth. Also I noticed that most people would drink out of straws because bacteria could be on the plastic/paper cups from cabinets and other storage. I am very glad to see that places all around the world are taking precautions in food safety, and finally realizing how important it really is.

FDA Modernization Act: http://www.fda.gov/food/foodsafety/fsma/default.htm



= __**Opportunities**__ =

**links:**
[] //Approximately 2.2 million people die per year due to food diseases which leads to an ample amount of new jobs in bioscience and biotechnology and others.//

[] //Has 11,000 job opportunities involved with food safety.//

[] //New safety law for food safety involve having atleast 4000 jobs by 2011 for the FDA that mandates more inspections and to respond to outbreaks more quick.//

[] //Jobs like food inspector are able to work in other branches including consumer safety inspector and import inspector position.//



This Farm Food Safety web shows what is necessary to keep the farm safe.This picture shows crosshairs on the quote “Focus on Food Safety” which shows that it is a main focus. The picture shows crosshairs on the quote "focus on food safety". This caution sign shows that the water is not safe for drinking. This graph depicts that 29% percent of the 35 responses are not fully concerned about food safety.

**Outline:**

 * Helps create Jobs
 * Globalization helps to give food to countries in need
 * Puts food born pathegens into food which can cause people to get disease and illness
 * Economic oppurtunities abound for companies working to improve food safety
 * Globalization is going to increase due to expected increases in global income levels

**__<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Food Safety Generated From Globalization __** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Globalization is very important to both the people who supply the food and the people who need the food. Globalization can cause fears because the people who are eating the food do not know what is in the food whether there are food borne illnesses or other viruses that can come from other countries. Viruses that travel through food are very dangerous because they can be contagious which can cause others to become sick and possibly die from the disease. Globalization can cause jobs for people because with the risk of food contamination there are people needed to check over the food. Due to the increase in globalization there are many more jobs that have been created or are going to be created. All new technology has a part from all different countries now. The act of the FDA is an attempt to decrease the 2.2 million deaths per year in which three thousands of those deaths were recorded in the United States. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Globalization and global change have increased traditional food security concerns such as chronic malnutrition, but have also increased new forms of challenges from biotechnology, bioterrorism, and emerging infectious diseases. There are more complex challenges in food security that impact and interact with global security concerns. Such as reducing conflict, ensuring human rights and maintaining economic prosperity. The rise of an international food system that transcends is because of food related events from recent years.Chronic hunger and obesity have reached crisis levels in many parts of the world, also rising global food prices have fueled unrest and hardship in more than sixty countries in only the past few years. Today problems emerge for global food out of complex mix of economic, environmental, political, and social factors that impact what ends up on people’s plates. We need to make sure that the food ending up on peoples plates are safe and affordable for them to eat. <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Due to constant change, the rapidly evolving world, and the expansion of globalization, food safety opportunities have arising including an abundance of new jobs, safety laws, and new branches or diverse types of jobs. In January 4th 2011 President Barak Obama signed the FDA Food Safety Act to insure food in the United States is safe due to increasing focus on prevention on contamination in foods. This act is an attempt to decrease the 2.2 million people that die per year in which three thousands of those deaths were recorded in the United States. Additionally because of this new jobs in bioscience and biotechnology have increased including the use of 35 billion dollars to treat diseases. While all this money is being used nearly 11 thousand jobs for food safety have been created. With this, the FDA is required to have at least 4,000 jobs due to the new act enforced by Barack Obama. This ensures that there will be more inspections and quicker responses to outbreaks if they happen to occur. Food inspectors can now follow many different paths in regard to this necessity. These paths include the consumer safety inspector position where food inspectors work in plants and observe their sanitation and processing. Additionally, the import inspector position which is another opportunity involves making sure imported food is safe at arrival at ports. These requirements are not only affecting the United States, but every country as they try to keep food safe and sanitary.