Todd Ewen C D
Bureau of Microbial Hazards, Health Protection Branch, Health and Welfare Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
J Food Prot. 1989 Aug;52(8):586-594. doi: 10.4315/0362-028X-52.8.586.
Estimates of cases of foodborne disease of microbiological, parasitic, animal, plant, and chemical origin were determined for Canada based on the limited information available. The reported number of 6,190 was multiplied by a factor of 350 to reach the figure of 2.2 million cases probably occurring each year. Foodborne disease was also a direct or indirect cause of a possible 31.2 deaths, mainly because of E. coli hemorrhagic colitis, salmonellosis, and listeriosis. Costs of 68 separate incidents were determined and used to measure the economic impact of different foodborne diseases. The total amount, including the value of deaths estimated to have occurred, came to 1,334.6 million in 1985 dollars, of which 88% was caused by microbiological diseases. This large sum of money for only one developed country can be reduced by various programs, such as education, good manufacturing and food handling practices, appropriate sanitation procedures, and for certain diseases like salmonellosis, irradiation of foods and competitive exclusion of pathogens in food animals. All these preventive measure require cooperation by the food industry, government, educational institutes, and international organizations.
基于有限的可用信息，对加拿大微生物、寄生虫、动物、植物和化学源食源性疾病的病例数进行了估算。报告的6190例乘以350的系数，得出每年可能发生的病例数为220万例。食源性疾病也是导致31.2人可能死亡的直接或间接原因，主要是由于大肠杆菌出血性结肠炎、沙门氏菌病和李斯特菌病。确定了68起单独事件的成本，并用于衡量不同食源性疾病的经济影响。包括估计发生的死亡价值在内，总额在1985年美元价值下达到13.346亿，其中88%由微生物疾病引起。仅一个发达国家的这笔巨额资金可以通过各种计划来减少，如教育、良好的生产和食品处理规范、适当的卫生程序，对于某些疾病如沙门氏菌病，还可通过食品辐照以及在食用动物中竞争性排除病原体。所有这些预防措施都需要食品行业、政府、教育机构和国际组织的合作。
