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The animals and their relationship to human health

Under the series of lectures and seminars on Alimenataria Security and Food Hygiene, experts said, among other things, that 60% of human diseases transmissible from animals. Cerdo

Approximately 60% of human diseases transmissible from animals. “Three out of four emerging diseases are transmitted by them,” said industry experts at an event organized by the Instituto Tomás Pascual Sanz for Nutrition and Health.

As reported in the official website of the institute, the experts conclude that it is necessary to put hands to work and make an incisive control of the food industry to analyze the risks and benefits of all products reaching the final consumer who is paying for them and in turn is the most exposed.

Putting such as some public health problems, such as those arising from parasites such as Anisakis any of the products or industrial processes such as heat treatment can produce harmful substances, the website adds that urgent preventive measures.

On this issue, a member of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Francisco Morales, said that the risk-benefit of promoting the healthy processes and mitigating the toxic and added that this is not always external to the substance but is implicit in their treatment, the site reported.

New substances resulting from food processing such as fermentation, freezing or dehydration, the interaction between products and their packaging and to the quality of feed for animals, have a direct impact on food chain information Web.

He adds that to implement all the guidelines imposed by the World Health Organization in relation to the handling of food (veterinary and medical, health and hygiene education of the population, control and improvement of sewage networks) is essential collaboration between physician and veterinarian, because the only way to eradicate the consequences of such a barrier between our non-existent diseases and those of animals.

What is the Instituto Tomás Pascual Sanz Institute for Nutrition and Health?

Created in February 2007, this nonprofit institute aims to contribute to the public interest by promoting the development of research in the field of health and nutrition. Seeks to promote and encourage research, training, nutrition, and scientific documentation, has become a vocation as a reference for researchers, students and other professionals in the field of health, reports its official website.

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