Food poisoning causes 2.1m deaths
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20/11/2008
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New Age (Bangladesh)
An estimated 2.1 million people die in the world annually from food poisoning and of other food-borne diseases, participants in a seminar in Dhaka said on Wednesday.
Food contamination refers to the presence in food of harmful chemicals and micro-organisms, which cause consumer illness, they added saying that most of food poisoning cases were caused by a variety of pathogenic bacteria, viruses and parasites.
They emphasised manufacturers