Glt1 Task 1

Q1.

I have no doubt in my mind that movement of people, food and manufactured goods have had and continue to have negative impact on public health. Because disease carrying organism and virus get transported throughout the world in much less time than the incubation period, making people, food and manufactured goods carriers of virus and disease causing organisms. These diseases are normally undetected until they have gone through their incubation period. Much as that is the case, steps should not be taken to reduce the flow or movement of people, food and manufactured goods. Movement of people, food and goods plays an important role in the growth of different economies, the improvement of service industries, the provision of much needed nutritious food, transfer of knowledge and global trade in general. To try and reduce the flow is to try and reduce the rate at which world trade and development takes place, and this can
This can greatly reduce or even restrict the transmission of disease.

- Use of technology in the sharing of information about diseases by various nations, this makes everyone aware of any potential foreign disease that may be moved through humans, food and manufactured goods.

- Coming up with standard operations procedures on how processed food is handled, stored and transported can also play a big role in terms of lowering spread of global disease.

- Implementing a very strict screening and testing procedures at every countries point of entry can greatly lower the spread of global disease

Q2.

Increased trade in food has led to the spread in food-borne illnesses because:

- Many countries especially developing ones, do not possess the same health and sanitary safeguards like their counterparts in developed