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  2. Disaster - Wikipedia

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    A disaster is an event that causes serious harm to people, buildings, economies, or the environment, and the affected community cannot handle it alone. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ better source needed ] Natural disasters like avalanches , floods , earthquakes , and wildfires are caused by natural hazards . [ 3 ]

  3. Disaster response - Wikipedia

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    An example of this would be building provisional storm drains or diversion dams. Emergency response aims to provide immediate help to keep people alive, improve their health and support their morale. It can involve specific but limited aid, such as helping refugees with transport, temporary shelter, and food. Or it can involve establishing semi ...

  4. Food safety - Wikipedia

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    Food safety (or food hygiene) is used as a scientific method/discipline describing handling, preparation, and storage of food in ways that prevent foodborne illness. The occurrence of two or more cases of a similar illness resulting from the ingestion of a common food is known as a food-borne disease outbreak. [1]

  5. List of food contamination incidents - Wikipedia

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    a "zero tolerance" approach to food fraud or food crime; a focus on intelligence gathering; the role of laboratory services; the value of audit and assurance regimes; targeted government support for the integrity and assurance of food supply networks; leadership, and; crisis management in response to any serious food safety or food crime ...

  6. Emergency sanitation - Wikipedia

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    Emergency pit latrines with bathing shelters built in the Bidi Bidi Refugee Settlement in northern Uganda. To address the problem of public health and the spread of dangerous diseases that come as a result of lack of sanitation and open defecation, humanitarian actors focus on the construction of, for example, pit latrines and the implementation of hygiene promotion programs.

  7. For Food Business, BP Oil Spill Is a Recipe for Disaster - AOL

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    As the BP (BP) Deepwater Horizon oil spill continues to devastate the Gulf coast fishing industry, worries are growing that contaminated seafood may find its way onto the dinner table. While ...

  8. Hazard - Wikipedia

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    An example of the distinction between a natural hazard and a disaster is that an earthquake is the hazard which caused the 1906 San Francisco earthquake disaster. A natural disaster is the highly harmful impact on a society or community following a natural hazard

  9. Food safety in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The current food safety laws are enforced by the FDA and FSIS. The FDA regulates all food manufactured in the United States, with the exception of the meat, poultry, and egg products that are regulated by FSIS. [15] The following is a list of all food safety acts, amendments, and laws put into place in the United States. [22] [14]