Food in Canada: Eat at your own risk

Food in Canada: Eat at your own risk ...Canada’s public and private sectors are
not doing enough to prevent food-borne illnesses. Among the major failings are inadequate active surveillance systems, an inability to trace foods from “farm to fork” and a lack of incentives to keep food safe along the “farm to fork” pathway. The result? Eleven mil- lion or more episodes of food-related gastroen- teritis in Canada every year. This is a crude esti- mate at best, because at least one report suggests that fewer than 1 in 200 episodes are reported....© 2011 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors