文档介绍：Agriculture, Biosecurity, Nutrition
and Consumer Protection Department
Food and anization
of the United Nations
Securing the food chain

FAO is developing prehensive strategy to help countries ensure a
"safe and nutritious" food supply...
In March 2005, 27 children at a school in the
central Philippines died after eating cassava
sweets that may have been contaminated with
pesticide. A week earlier, 16 holidaymakers in
Taiwan, Province of China, collapsed with severe
stomach pains after a buffet dinner, and
American singer Whitney Houston was rushed to
hospital in Paris with gastroenteritis after a
trans-Atlantic flight. In London, a consumer
sued a restaurant for US$ 2 million claiming a
meal gave her salmonella poisoning, and
Britain's Food Standards Agency broadened an
already massive recall of food products
contaminated by the cancer-causing red dye,
sudan-1. And in China, media reported that

sudan-1 had been detected in foods in 12 include questions of nutrition. It addresses both
provinces and municipalities across the country. formal and informal food chains and outlines
Those reports, gleaned from a simple search measures for step-by-step implementation
of news sources, illustrate why food according to countries' particular needs,
safety has e a serious concern for resources and capacities.
consumers, farmer