Food Safety News (Full Article)
It’s highly unlikely, but if high in an African mango tree a bat dropped its guano on fruit and it was harvested and went unwashed on a 747 to America, you could end up with a deadly tropical foodborne illness characterized by bleeding through the eye socket.
These are the possibilities that are considered at the International Association for Food Protection, which is meeting this week at the Rhode Island State Convention Center. It’s where food professionals come to learn about the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) Global Foodborne Infections Network, or PulseNet International, which keeps track of threats most of us don’t even want to think about.
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