Blog 17
1. I read the Codex standards for olive oil, which I use frequently. There were 9 pages of information on safety standards used for olive oil, which was amazing to see - I had no idea that there are so many considerations for food safety. In thinking about what I ate today, and the amount of standards invoked, I would estimate that I probably had five foods that had health standards listed for them on Codex.
2. I work with a lot of people who experience homelessness and one thing I think of frequently is their lack of a refrigerator. They're at risk for then eating high amounts of processed foods that don't need to be refrigerated, or running the risk of having their food go bad without a refrigerator.
3. Nurses should buy meats that have not been treated with antibiotics, and should educate their patients to do the same. While the healthcare industry takes a lot of heat for antibiotic resistance, which is deserved to a certain extent, the agriculture industry should receive more pressure than it currently does to reduce its use of antibiotics.
Environmental news:
I read about Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which is a major place of concern in the Congo's ebola outbreak. In a city of 2 million people, many are without running water, forcing them to go fill up jerrycans from Lake Kivu - a nearby lake. This has major impacts in daily life - kids missing school, potential sexual assault on the way to get water, exposure to more vectors when getting water, and waterborne illness. In the new command center for the ebola outbreak, a lack of widespread running water is devastating.
2. I work with a lot of people who experience homelessness and one thing I think of frequently is their lack of a refrigerator. They're at risk for then eating high amounts of processed foods that don't need to be refrigerated, or running the risk of having their food go bad without a refrigerator.
3. Nurses should buy meats that have not been treated with antibiotics, and should educate their patients to do the same. While the healthcare industry takes a lot of heat for antibiotic resistance, which is deserved to a certain extent, the agriculture industry should receive more pressure than it currently does to reduce its use of antibiotics.
Environmental news:
I read about Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which is a major place of concern in the Congo's ebola outbreak. In a city of 2 million people, many are without running water, forcing them to go fill up jerrycans from Lake Kivu - a nearby lake. This has major impacts in daily life - kids missing school, potential sexual assault on the way to get water, exposure to more vectors when getting water, and waterborne illness. In the new command center for the ebola outbreak, a lack of widespread running water is devastating.
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