مورد إلكتروني
Food Safety Practice and Food Safety Knowledge in Australia's Retail Food Businesses: Levels, Gaps and Directions for Reform
| العنوان: | Food Safety Practice and Food Safety Knowledge in Australia's Retail Food Businesses: Levels, Gaps and Directions for Reform |
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| بيانات النشر: | Griffith University 2009 |
| تفاصيل مُضافة: | Davey, Peter Chu, Cordia Green, Trevor David |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Electronic Resource |
| مستخلص: | Food safety is one of the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) top ten priorities (WHO 2008). The WHO (1999a) estimates that the incidence of diarrhoeal diseases alone is 4000 million cases per year worldwide indicating serious underlying food safety problems. WHO (1999a) also advises that contaminated food contributes to 1.5 billion cases of diarrhoea in children each year, resulting in more than three million premature deaths. These food-borne deaths and illnesses are shared by both developed and developing nations (Centre for Science in the Public Interest 2005). Food poisoning remains a significant public health issue for Australia (Australia New Zealand Food Authority (ANZFA) 1996), with an estimated 4.2 million individual cases of food-borne illness in Australia per year, resulting in a total annual cost to Australia of approximately $2.7 billion per year (Queensland Health 1999; ANZFA 1999b). Unofficial estimates of the number of food-borne illness cases in Queensland in 2002 are between 1.6 million and 1.9 million cases per year. Internationally the WHO has called for more systematic and aggressive steps to be taken to significantly reduce the risk of food-borne diseases (WHO 2008). Nationally the federal government states that the most important reason for introducing food safety reform in Australia is the need to reduce the national incidence of food-borne illness (Roche 2002). The Queensland government has adviseded that it is committed to food safety in the food supply chain from source to consumption (Queensland Health 2000). Australia’s food hygiene regulatory system costs government $18.6 million (net) to enforce and small business $337 million in compliance costs per year, and yet 11,500 consumers contract food-borne disease every day (ANZFA 1999b). Federal, state and territory governments throughout Australia have all acknowledged that this is unacceptable. A reduction in food-borne illness of just 20% would result in an annual saving to the Australian Thesis (Masters) Master of Philosophy (MPhil) Griffith School of Environment Science, Environment, Engineering and Technology Full Text |
| مصطلحات الفهرس: | Food safety, food safety practice, food safety knowledge, Queensland, Australia, retail food business, reform, world health organisation, WHO, food safety problems, food-borne illness, Griffith thesis |
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| الإتاحة: | Open access content. Open access content The author owns the copyright in this thesis, unless stated otherwise. Public open access |
| ملاحظة: | English |
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