Toxoplasmosis a Time to Act?

Posted on January 6, 2012 by | 3 Comments

Food Production Daily                                 FSA Consultation Paper

An article in Food Production daily has reported on a consultation paper released by the FSA about Toxoplasma gondii and Toxoplasmosis. Toxoplasmosis is under reported in the UK and there are large gaps on knowledge about the parasite. Figures from the US and UK would indicate that about 50% of Toxoplasmosis cases are foodborne although the disease is more associated with domestic animals. In the US it is estimated that 60 million people carry the parasite and estimate figures for the UK are 15 million of the adult population carry the parasite.

It is listed in the top five organisms for economic loss from foodborne illness in the USA.

In general exposure to the healthy population would lead to mild symptoms but in immunosuppressed and pregnant could develop more severe and even life threatening symptoms.

There is a raft of information in both links above.

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