Response from The Institute of Food Research to the Advisory Committee on the Microbiological Safety of Food (ACMSF) consultation on draft risk profile in relation to Toxoplasma in the food chain
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1. Symptomatic toxoplasmosis should be made notifiable A primary consideration is the burden of disease caused by Toxoplasma in the UK. The report concludes that there are not sufficient data to assess the burden of disease due to toxoplasmosis in the UK, but that it will probably not be significantly different from the assessments made in the USA and the Netherlands. The paper (cited in the report) by Kemmeren et al. (2007) for the Netherlands concluded that toxoplasmosis causes the highest disease burden among seven evaluated foodborne pathogens (the other pathogens were Campylobacter spp. Salmonella spp. Listeria monocytogenes, Escherichia coli O157, norovirus and rotavirus). In the United States, Scallan et al. (2011) estimated that Toxoplasma gondii was the second major cause of deaths due to foodborne illness, causing 24% of deaths compared with 28% due to nontyphoidal Salmonella spp. These assessments indicate that toxoplasmosis is one of the most costly gastrointestinal infections and a major cause of deaths due to foodborne pathogens.
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