In China, the contaminated milk became the cause of four deaths and kidney problems in over 50,000 children, while in America; more than 1,400 people fell ill due to salmonella’s outbreak.

According to Jorgen Schlundt, who is director of food safety in WHO, “We need to make more research to find out how many deaths and how much sicknesses originate from tainted foods.”

According to some estimates, viruses, parasites, bacteria and chemicals that are introduced along food chains originate almost 30% of new infectious diseases.

“Some reports show that the foodborne diseases are on increase worldwide, but we don’t have a sufficient data and it is somewhat difficult to point out what is really happening,” Schulundt said

The United Nation Agency says that nearly 2.2 million children die every year from different diarrhoeal illnesses like cholera and it mostly occurs due poor sanitation, dirty water and the tainted food.

“It is needed to monitor food products at every stage of their handling and we can easily observe that in many countries, regulatory authorities have failed to work together,” he added.