"FAW" reveal the first ten parasites that are transmitted through food
Released today by the United Nations Food and Agriculture "FAO" list "the first ten parasites" transmitted through food, and the most troubling at the global level, and is currently being extended to develop guidelines to control it.
The impact of these parasites on the health of millions of people every year, since infect muscle tissue and internal organs, causing epilepsy, trauma sensitivity, and amoebic dysentery and other, and strengthen these organisms parasitic on life inside our bodies over the decades.
In spite of the enormous social costs of these parasites and their impact on the global level, there is generally a lack of information with respect to its source, and how to live within the body, and even more importantly - how to cause us diseases.
As a first step to fix the problem, focusing Organization "FAO" and the World Health Organization (W.. HP.) Or, through the issuance of this bulletin today, the "top ten" of these objects relative to the magnitude of the impact scale of the damage, which achieved at the global level.
The arrangement is based on the risk in the report entitled "included a document to the multiplicity of standards in risk management parasites phones in food", to estimate the extent of the "burden" of parasites for human health and other factors, with the included information about incubators and sites found.
"The first ten":
1 - solium (tapeworm in pork) (Taenia solium): found in pork.
2 - E. granulosus (hydatid tapeworm or canis) (granulosus Echinococcus): found in fresh produce.
3 - Echinococcus hydatid cysts or stripe (a type of tapeworm) (Echinococcus multilocularis): found in fresh produce.
4 - Toxoplasma worm or toxoplasmosis (protozoa) (Toxoplasma gondii): found in small ruminants meat, pork, beef, and meat hunting (red meat and organs).
5 - Cryptosporidium (protozoa, or single-cell) (Cryptosporidium spp): found in fresh produce, fruit juice and milk.
6 - weave metamorphic (or single-celled protozoa) (Entamoeba histolytica): found in fresh produce.
7 - spiral nematode (worm in pork) (Trichinella spiralis): found in pork.
8 - family flatworms (Opisthorchiidae): found in freshwater fish.
9 small intestinal worms (Ascaris spp): found in fresh produce
10 - Trypanosoma cruzi (or single-celled protozoa) (Trypanosoma cruzi): found in fruit juices.
And put this list with the report facilities, at the request of the Committee on Standards of global food or the Codex Alimentarius Commission (Codex), in order to review the organization "FAW" and the World Health Organization current state of knowledge available about parasites in food, and the effects of public health implications, and its impact on trade .
The unit responded to the Organization of food safety, "FAW" with the unit competent to quality with the World Health Organization, a global joint venture with an appeal for information on this problem.
To date, 22 countries responded and one regional body, followed by the analysis conducted by 21 experts on the impact of the parasite-borne nutrients.
Based on these results and developed an initial list includes 93 parasite; It was then narrowed the list to 24 of the parasites most destructive, according to the following criteria: 1) the number of global diseases resulting therefrom; 2) geographical distribution globally; 3) the severity of illness caused by it and whether was fatal; 4) Is a disorder causing chronic; 5) the economic impact.
