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AND HUMAN POTENTIAL

  2. Global strategies
  3. Protecting against food contamination

Protecting against food contamination

Implementation

In Belgium, where the issue of meat treated with growth hormones received a widespread coverage, supermarket chains started marketing "Bio" labelled meat with the assurance that it was "free of hormones and other growth stimulants".

Broader

Protecting
Yet to rate

Constrained by

Contaminating food chains
Yet to rate

Facilitates

Testing food contamination
Yet to rate

Facilitated by

Improving safe food preparation
Presentable
Improving food production in developing countries
Presentable
Improving food hygiene
Presentable
Banning growth hormones in meat
Presentable
Studying illnesses due to contaminated foods
Yet to rate
Strengthening national food control
Yet to rate
Reducing incidence of food-borne infections and intoxications
Yet to rate
Producing quality food products
Yet to rate

Problem

Fear of food contamination
Unpresentable

Value

Contamination
Yet to rate

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #2: Zero Hunger

Metadata

Database
Global strategies
Type
(G) Very specific strategies
Subject
  • Amenities » Food
  • Societal problems » Protection
  • Societal problems » Pollution
    • Content quality
    Yet to rate
     Yet to rate
    Language
    English
    1A4N
    V4798
    DOCID
    13247980
    D7NID
    207119
    Last update
    Sep 28, 2022