Union Health Ministry’s Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme's (IDSP) recent data indicated that food poisoning is one of the commonest outbreaks reported in 2017. This is apart from acute diarrhoeal disease (ADD).
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Food poisoning, also called food-borne illness, is caused by eating contaminated food. Infectious organisms including bacteria, viruses and parasites or their toxins are the most common causes.
According to the data, 312 of the 1,649 outbreaks reported till the third week of December 2017 were due to acute diarrhoeal disease (ADD) and 242 were due to food poisoning.
According to the Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP), the incidence of ADD and food poisoning is high in places where food is cooked in bulk, such as canteens, wedding venues and hostels .
The National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), the nodal agency under the Union Health Ministry that documents outbreaks and brings out data under its disease surveillance programme, told that the trend had been the same over many years. “It is not just this year. Acute diarrhoeal disease and food poisoning have been common outbreaks since 2008. This is followed by chickenpox and measles,” it further added.
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