#Farm-To-Fork Food Surveillance System: A Call for #Public Health Education by Mario Brondani in BJSTR
Abstract
Objective: This paper aims to present a generalized farm-to-fork surveillance system framework with a focus on education for improving
health and controlling and preventing food borne illnesses.
Method: A brief literature search compiled some of the
existing surveillance systems with special attention to the Canadian
context. The
Public Health Agency of Canada conceptual model for food borne
surveillance was used to develop a framework focused on educating the
public
on controlling and preventing food borne illnesses.
Result: The farm-to-fork surveillance system presented focuses
on the end-user as well as producers and food handlers, with special
attention on how to keep illness-causing pathogens out of food, destroy
them once they have contaminated the food, and control their growth
in already contaminated food. There are many local and worldwide efforts
on how to properly hand-sanitize before, during and after food
preparation in restaurants/eateries and at home so that food borne
illnesses are prevented.
Conclusion: A food borne illness surveillance system is needed
in Canada focusing on introducing a harmonious and standardized
surveillance system across the country; strengthening local and
provincial capacity for implementing such surveillance and in responding
to
food borne illnesses through networking; and enhancing the surveillance
capacity along the entire farm-to-fork chain.
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