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Unsafe food consuming 4.20 lakh lives every year

Consumption of unsafe and contaminated food has emerged as a major threat to human health with an estimated 600 million people – almost 1 in 10 people across the world falling sick after eating contaminated food. Out of this, 4,20,000 people die every year, resulting in the loss of 33 million healthy life years.
The worst victims of foodborne diseases are children under 5 years of age, who constitute 40% of foodborne diseases burden with 1,25,000 deaths every year.
As far as India is concerned, the number of foodborne diseases (FBD) is expected to rise from 100 million in 2011 to 150-170 million by 2030, which means one out of nine people on an average would fall sick from FBDs.
Given the possible underestimation of FBD burden, the GDP gains in India would amount to $ 80 billion. Foodborne diseases are not consuming millions of lives across the world, they are also impeding socio-economic development by straining health care system and harming national economies, tourism, and trade, says the World Health Organization.
Takin into consideration the above mentioned facts, the way food is produced, coocked, stored, handled and consumed assumes utmost significance as any compromise on quality of food has its direct bearing on human health. In order to ensure complete safety of our food, it is important for both the government and those associated with the food producing, cooking business strictly comply with the global food standards, regulatory food control system, adopt good agriculture practices etc.
On World Food Safety Day, let we all promote awareness among people about the vicious impact of consuming unsafe and contaminated food so that more and more people be aware of what they consume so as to avoid severe health complications. We at Srijan, do promote “Swasth Bharat Mission” practices in the countryside making people, especially the children aware of cleanliness, food safety, malnutrition etc. as we believe only a swasth Bharat can lead to a strong and educated Bharat.

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