Australian Consumers' Food Safety Report Card Released:Australia

摘要

To celebrate World Health Day 2015 (7 April), which had the theme of food safety, the Australian Food Safety Information Council released a report card assessing Australian consumers' knowledge of food safety.Council Chair, Professor Michael Eyles, said that while it is good news that a recent Australian National University (ANU) study found that food poisoning cases in Australia have decreased from an estimated 4.3 million cases in 2000 to 4.1 million in 2010, this is still an alarmingly high number."Food poisoning can be serious and results in 31,920 hospitalisations, 86 deaths and 1 million visits to doctors on average each year.