AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN FOOD SAFETY REGULATORS STRUGGLE TO CONTAIN EMERGING FOOD HEALTH RISKS
November 1st, 2007
BY DAVID HAWORTH, in Brussels ONLY a small fraction of food induced illnesses are reported to the public health authorities because most cases are sporadic and outside recognised outbreaks, Robert Tauxe, of the Centre for Disease Control, Atlanta, USA, told a key Brussels environmental health meeting. He was addressing a two-day conference of 500 scientists and other food experts last week, staged to mark the fifth anniversary of the European Food Safety Agency (EFSA). Last year in the United States, 76 million people were estimated to have contracted some ...
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