Many sick or dead by mistake food

World December 3, 2015 14:30

geneve - Estimates of the World Food Organisation WHO indicate that an alarming number of people become ill each year or dies by tainted and contaminated food. It's about 600 million people who are ill and 420,000 people, including 120,000 children under five.

The WHO, in a report published Thursday for the first time estimates of the number of victims worldwide by consuming wrong food. The consequences of this are processed 31 cases in foods that do not belong there, such as certain bacteria, viruses, parasites, toxins and chemicals. About one hundred experts from around the world worked for ten years to the report.Most of the victims were in Africa and South East Asia.