Food Poisoning
Assignment Overview You have been hired by the City Council as an Environmental Health Consultant to provide technical advice about two topics. Assignment Write a paper in which you respond to the following questions:
There has been an increase in emergency visits due to food-borne poisoning. Salmonellosis seems to be a frequent diagnosis in these visits. – Explain to the residents of the community and owners of food establishments what guidelines they should follow to improve food safety and to prevent specifically salmonellosis. – In your explanation, it should be evident what the principles of food safety are. Additionally, there seems to be a growing belief in the community that reheating food, particularly leftovers, before eating can render the food safe for consumption.
– Discuss the practice of reheating leftover foods, along with examples and justification of whether or not this belief is true or false- Provide specific examples of food-borne pathogens as you give examples. Assignment Expectations Length: 4-5 pages, APA format, requires scholarly sources useful Resources:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2018). Foodborne germs and illnesses.
Retrieved from http://www.cdc.gov/foodsafety/foodborne-germs.htmlPainter, J. A., Hoekstra, R. M., Ayers, T., Tauxe, R. V., Braden, C. R., Angulo F. J., et al. (2013).
Attribution of foodborne illnesses, hospitalizations, and deaths to food commodities by using outbreak data, United States, 19982008. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 19(3): 407-415.
