Healthy People 2010 Update
“Healthy People 2010” is a comprehensive set of disease prevention and health promotion objectives for the United States to achieve over the first decade of the new century. Developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Healthy People 2010 has identified focus areas that represent the most significant preventable threats to health—one of the 28 focus areas is food safety. In a recent report for the Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network, otherwise known as FoodNet, data collected from 10 states on the incidence of food-borne illnesses indicated that none of the Healthy People 2010 targets for reduction of food-borne pathogens were reached in 2008. This is just one incidence of data collected indicating the lack of progress in the current food safety systems and the need to continue to develop food safety practices that address food as it moves along the entire food supply chain – from field to table.
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Healthy People 2010
