COVID-19 Pandemic and Food Safety Issues in Pakistan

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dc.contributor.authorAslam, S
dc.contributor.authorKhalid, Nauman
dc.date.accessioned2024-09-26T10:19:52Z
dc.date.available2024-09-26T10:19:52Z
dc.date.issued2021-09-19
dc.descriptionPakistan is a developing country where a significant attention is not paid towards the food safety and hygienic conditions therefore, the occurrence of many food-borne illnesses is common. Estimation of diseases transmitted by food in Pakistan is a difficult job because any monitoring or control program for food-borne infections is still absent. Unhygienic processing, storage, and transportation practices are major causes of this issue in Pakistan. Punjab Food Authority of Pakistan recently provided a set of COVID-19 guidelines intended for the food industry to control the spread of outbreak in country.
dc.description.abstractAfter the first wave of the pandemic COVID-19, an extra attention is has been paid to the hygienic and safe handling, transportation, and storage of the food materials. As COVID-19 infection is highly transmissible. So, it has been supposed that contracting with the contaminated food, food packages or containers with the SARS-CoV-2 could disseminate the virus in human being. It is generally known that viruses do not multiply in food systems as they require an animal or plant host to multiply. However, until now, no researches have explored the survival of SARS-CoV-2 in food systems. However, a previous study reported the survival of respiratory infectious virus (coronavirus) on surface of lettuce for two days (YépizGómez et al., 2013). These results indicate that the respiratory virus can transfer from the surface of the food to hands and then to the mouth, nose or eyes, and cause infection. Keywords Covid 19, Pandemic, Food Package , SARS-CoV- 2, Infection.
dc.identifier.citationAslam, S., & Khalid, N. (2021). COVID-19 Pandemic and Food Safety Issues in Pakistan. Journal of food quality and hazards control.
dc.identifier.doi10.18502/jfqhc.8.3.7193
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.adu.ac.ae/handle/1/6539
dc.language.isoEN
dc.publisherShahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences
dc.titleCOVID-19 Pandemic and Food Safety Issues in Pakistan
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