单选题
Food safety is an increasingly important public health issue. Governments all over the world are intensifying their efforts to improve food safety. These efforts are in response (51) an increasing number of food safety problems and (52) consumer concerns.
Foodborne illnesses are (53) as diseases, usually either infectious or toxic in nature, caused by agents that enter the body through the ingestion of food. Every person is (54) risk of foodborne illness.
Foodbome diseases are a widespread and growing public health problem, both in developed (55) developing countries. The global (56) of foodborne disease is difficult to estimate, but it has been reported that in 2005 (57) 8 million people died from diarrhoeal diseases. A great (58) of these cases can be attributed to contamination of food and drinking water. (59) , diarrhoeal is a major cause of malnutrition in infants and young children.
In industrialized countries, the percentage of me population suffering from foodborne diseases each year has been reported to be 10 (60) 30%. In the United States of America (USA, for example, around 76 million cases of foodborne diseases, (61) 325,000 hospitalizations and 5,000 deaths, are estimated to occur each year.
While less well documented, developing countries bear the brunt of the problem due to the presence of a wide (62) of foodborne diseases, including those caused by parasites. The high (63) of diarrhoeal diseases in many developing countries suggests major underlying food safety problems.
In partnership (64) other stakeholders, WHO is developing policies that will further promote the safety of food. These policies cover the entire food chain from production to consumption and will (65) different types of expertise.