1. FOOD SAFETY AND SECURITY
FOOD SAFETY.. This refers to the foods staffs
which are free from causing any danger or harm
to the members of any given community.
FOOD SECURITY.. this refers to a situation when
the community has sufficient/ enough healthy
food staffs for all its members.
So food safety and security refers to access to
healthy and sufficient amount of nutritious food
that can sustain life and promote good health
(according to WHO fact sheet 2017)
2. Key factors.
• Unsafe food containing harmful bcteria, viruses,
parasites or chemical substances, causes more
than 200 diseases ranging from diarrhoea to
cancer.
• An estiment of 600 million almost 1 in 10 people
in the world fall ill after eating contaminated food
especially in developing countries, and 420,000
die every year.
• Children under five years of age carry 40% of the
foodborne disease burden with 125,000 death
every year.
• diarrhoea diseases are the most common illness
resulting from consumption of unsafe foods.
3. Cont…
• In children especially under five years of age
unsafe food on additional to diseases, results
into retarded growth, poor immunity and
poor weight gain.
• Food safety, nutrition and security are
inextricably linked. Unsafe food creates a
vicious cycle of disease and malnutrition,
particularly affecting infants, young children,
elderly and sick.
4. Cont…..
• Foodborne diseases impend social economic
development by straining health care system
and harming national economies tourism and
trade.
• Food supply chain now cross multiple
communities and national borders to ensure
good collaboration between governments,
producers and consumers to ensure food
safety and security.
5. Steps of ensuring food safety and
security.
• This can be under 3 categories.
• POLICY MAKERS can………
• Build and maintain adequate food system and
infrastructures like laboratories to respond to and
manage food safety risks along the entire food
chain including during emergencies.
• Foster multi sectoral collaboration among public
health, animals health, agriculture and other
sectors for better communication and joint
actions.
6. Cont…
• Integrated food safety into broader food
policies and programmes e.g nutrition and
food security.
• Think globally and act locally to ensure the
food produce domesticallybe safe
internationally.
7. Food handlers and consumers can…..
• Know the food they use.
• Handle and prepare foods safely.
• Grow foods, vegetables and fruits that are
healthy to human life.
• Know how to use and handle and preserve
different foods.
• Know the dangers of nutritional imbalance
especially among children.
8. Family income generation activities
• Family income generation activities refers to
programs that support and promote in order
to help vulnerable populations cover their
basic needs and food supplies in a sustainable
manner through income they produce. The
programmes should permit an improvement
in the families’ economic situations through
an increase in the household’s purchasing
power.
9. The promotion of IGA
• Taking advantages of knowledgeable
individuals in the community.
• Encourage unity among members of the
community to mobilize enough labor.
• Specialization and division of labor.
• Strengthening and creation of market for
products.
• Uniting a large quantity of product can
increase sales possibilities.
• Having limited representatives for mgt.
10. Cont …..
• Aim at expanding the program horizontally
and vertically.
11. Advantages of IGA
It improves purchasing power of the family
and community.
Improves access to health services.
Can improves the nutritional status of the
family and the community.
Can improve the standards of living of
individual, family and community.
Establish market for community products.
It can improve oneness of the community and
the security.
