Unsafe food kills 1.5 million people a year worldwide – WHO

GENEVA — Food contaminated with harmful bacteria, viruses, parasites or chemicals kills 1.5 million people worldwide each year, with young children worst hit, the World Health Organization warned on Thursday. After analysing 194 countries between 2000 and 2021, the United Nations health agency found that 886 million people contract an illness linked to the consumption of unsafe food a year, with under-fives nearly three times more likely to be at risk. “Food safety is not an abstract issue — it touches every meal, every family, every day,” said WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. READ: Food safety: How not to die […]... Keep on reading: Unsafe food kills 1.5 million people a year worldwide – WHO