Food poisoning causes 2.1m deaths

  • 20/11/2008

  • 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