Population health surveillance by quality and safety food systems.

Population health surveillance provides real-time information about dietary factors that create health problems for a certain segment of the population or the entire population. It warns about the measures to be taken to prevent these problems or reduce the effects of their manifestation. It is an efficient way by which to intervene when there is a tendency for the spread of disease outbreaks which involve specialists with increased competences in various fields. The industrialization, free movement of goods and persons, urban population growth and decline of rural communities, are some of the factors that threaten the preservation of the population’s health. The aim of this research is to investigate the impact of official controls in food quality and safety surveillance on the health of the population, the lasting impact being the reduction of diseases due to the foods consumption.