You have been hired by the City Council as an Environmental Health Consultant to provide technical advice about two topics.
Assignment Overview
You have been hired by the City Council as an Environmental Health Consultant to provide technical advice about two topics.
Case Assignment
Write a paper in which you respond to the following questions:
There has been an increase in emergency visits due to food-borne poisoning. Samonellosis seems to be a frequent diagnosis in these visits. Explain to the residents of the community and owners of food establishments what guidelines they should follow to improve food safety and to prevent specifically, salmonellosis. In your explanation, it should be evident what the principles of food safety are.
Additionally, there seems to be a growing belief in the community that reheating food, particularly leftovers, prior to eating can render the food safe for consumption. Discuss the practice of reheating leftover foods, along with examples and justification of whether or not this belief is true or false; provide specific examples of food-borne pathogens as you give examples.
Assignment Expectations
Use information from your module readings/articles as well as appropriate research to support your paper.
Required Reading
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2018). Ergonomics and musculoskeletal disorders. Retrieved from http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/ergonomics/
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2018). Foodborne germs and illnesses. Retrieved from http://www.cdc.gov/foodsafety/foodborne-germs.html
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2019). Division of vector-borne diseases (DVBD). Retrieved from http://www.cdc.gov/ncezid/dvbd/
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2019). Preparing the nation to address vector-borne diseases threats. Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/ncezid/dvbd/about/prepare-nation.html
Keyserling, W. M. (2011). Section IV.27: Occupational ergonomics: Promoting safety and health through work design. In Levy, B. S., Wegman, D. H., Baron, S. L., & Sokas, R. K. (Eds.). In Occupational and environmental health: Recognizing and preventing disease and injury (6th ed., pp. 591-603). New York: Oxford University Press.
Montano, D. (2014). Chemical and biological work-related risks across occupations in Europe: A review. Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology, 9: 28-41.
Painter, J. A., Hoekstra, R. M., Ayers, T., Tauxe, R. V., Braden, C. R., Angulo F. J., et al. (2013). Attribution of foodborne illnesses, hospitalizations, and deaths to food commodities by using outbreak data, United States, 1998–2008. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 19(3): 407-415.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. (2019). About pesticides. Retrieved from http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/about/index.htm
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