Food Safety and Nutricional Information Bulletin
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Imagine there has been a drastic rise in food-borne illness in the city in which you live. The public lacks the knowledge about proper food safety to prevent these problems and they also do not know how to find accurate nutritional information to educate themselves about nutrition and health.
· Create a public service bulletin that will be printed in the Sunday edition of the newspaper.
· Address the following in no more than 500 words using APA format style and a minimum of two reputable references:
o Identify some common safety issues related to food purchase, storage, and preparation.
o What illnesses or problems might these issues cause, how might they be prevented, and where might the readers look for more information?
o What criteria might the readers use to determine sources of credible nutritional information?
o Why is it important for the readers to use these criteria when looking for information on nutrition and health?
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The solution includes a possible public service bulletin on food-borne illness with safety issues to control community break out and nutricional guidelines as a complement to the bulletin.
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Following is an example of a public health bulletin. Hope it helps you. It was difficult to keep it under 500 words with two topics to cover. Let me know if you have any questions or if I can help you in any other way. Thank you for using BrainMass.
Bulletin: Food-related diseases
To all residents in the XXX community area
City - Date - Recent reports showing an increase diseases related to food consumption (called foodborne illness) has created concern among public health officials and community leaders. Foodborne illnesses are caused from eating contaminated foods with either bacteria, viruses, parasites, toxins/chemicals or contaminants (CDC, 2006).
Food safety experts have identified the bacteria Campylobacter, Salmonella, E. coli, and the Norwalk and Norwalk-like viruses as the most common cause of these infections. Common symptoms are diarrhea, vomiting, stomach cramps, headache and sometimes fever. These symptoms may come on as early as a half hour or up to two weeks after eating contaminated food (CDC, 2005).
If you or a family member has any of these symptoms, please see a ...
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