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My name is Pia and I am a scientist
in the European Food Safety Authority.
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I am going to tell you what are
the food-borne zoonotic pathogens
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and why they are important to
public health and to humans.
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And first of all this term zoonotic,
it comes from the Latin term zoonosis
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which means diseases and infections
which are transmissible
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between animals and humans,
and quite often these infections
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are transmitted through
contaminated food stuffs.
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The most important food-borne
pathogens in Europe are bacteria
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such as Salmonella, Campylobacter
and certain types of Escherichia coli,
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and these bacteria typically
cause diarrhoea in humans
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but also sometimes
more serious symptoms.
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And then we still have some
food-borne parasites in the EU
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such as Trichinella and then of
course there are also some other pathogens.
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Animals, such as pigs, cattle, and
poultry they quite often carry
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these food- borne pathogens in their
gut content, or skin or even in their
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muscles, but in most cases these
pathogens do not cause any disease in animals.
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But when food from these types of
infected animals is being produced, the
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food can become contaminated with
these pathogens and then when humans
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eat this type of contaminated food they
can get infected and get the disease.
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These food-borne zoonotic
pathogens are important in Europe
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and that is because these pathogens cause
over three hundred thousand reported
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human cases in the European Union
each year, and most likely there is
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even more cases because of the common
under-reporting.
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So we have actually over
two hundred thousand
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reported Campylobacterosis
cases in humans each
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year in the European Union
and around one hundred thousand
reported Salmonellosis
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cases in humans and for the other
pathogens is of course less.
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Thus it is important to prevent these
diseases from occurring and in fact
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the European Union has already issued
legislation which aims to reduce
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these pathogens in animals and also
further up in the food chain.
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And these methods have already
resulted in the reduction of
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human Salmonellosis cases in the
European Union and these cases
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have actually dropped by almost
half in the last six years.
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But you can also take
some actions by yourself
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to avoid these diseases, and for
that purpose it is important
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always to cook raw meat
and raw eggs thoroughly
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and also have good
kitchen hygiene at home.
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