On emerging problems in food-borne parasitic zoonosis: impact on agriculture and public health.

Food-borne diseases can cause both direct and indirect 'economic losses. The provision of 'clean food through enforceable food safety requirements afl'ects'many areas of human economic and social activity . including agriculture, food manufacturing aDdprocessing,anirnal husbandry and the practice of veterinary medicine, (Waites and Arbuthnott, 1990). Unsafe 'and unclean 'foods may have to be withdrawn "frQIJl"sale and destroyed, baying a di.r,'~cteconqrnicimPllct on the food industry. Iadirecreconornic, distress occurs through a reductio.n or.Joss.of'income by those suffering from a food-borne, illness.