Food Poisoning and Public Health

Public-health aspects of food poisoning.

Penetration of Spoilage and Food Poisoning Bacteria into Fresh Chicken Egg: a Public Health Concern

Bacterial penetration shortly after inoculation has not been reported extensively. Four strains of bacteria, Salmonella typhimurium (ST), Escherichia coli (EC), Pseudomonas earuginosa (PE) and Stapylococcus aureus (SA), in chicken egg components of Bovan brown were analyzed by serial dilution and scanning electron microscopy. After exposing the fresh eggs to the bacterial strains at concentrati...

Carbon monoxide poisoning--a public health perspective.

Carbon monoxide (CO) may be the cause of more than one-half of the fatal poisonings reported in many countries; fatal cases also are grossly under-reported or misdiagnosed by medical professionals. Therefore, the precise number of individuals who have suffered from CO intoxication is not known. The health effects associated with exposure to CO range from the more subtle cardiovascular and neuro...

A small outbreak of food poisoning among attendees of a public health thesis examination conference.

Affiliations: 1. Department of Trauma and Orthopedic Surgery, Clinic of Surgery, Ernst Moritz Arndt University, Sauerbruchstrasse, 17489 Greifswald, Germany; 2. Clinic of Dermatology, Ernst Moritz Arndt University, Sauerbruchstrasse, 17489 Greifswald, Germany; 3. Emergency Hospital Berlin (ukb), Warener Straße 7, 12683 Berlin, Germany Address correspondence to Georg Daeschlein, MD, Clinic of De...

Food and nutritional security and public health.

Cad. Saúde Pública, Rio de Janeiro, 24(7):1464-1465, jul, 2008 Food and Nutritional Security has become an increasingly important area of public policy in Brazil. In the tumultuous process of constructing national values and practices, it has come to have a direct impact on the political and institutional make-up of various sectors of government and society. Until the 1990s, the main forms of f...