Mahmoud Mohamed Berekaa

Department Environmental Health, College of Public Health, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Saudi Arabia

Publications

• Reviews   
  Food Safety in Saudi Arabia: A Public Health Priority
  Author(s): Ali Saad R. Alsubaie* and Mahmoud Mohamed Berekaa
  
  Food safety is a very important issue, and many challenges remain. Protecting people from foodborne illness, quality control issues and food fraud is an ongoing journey and critical to the health and wellbeing of all of us. Unsafe foods containing pathogenic microorganisms and toxic chemicals are responsible for several diseases ranging from diarrhea to cancer. Rapid rise in foodborne diseases is posing serious threats to public health and economy worldwide. Food safety is considered as one of the major pillars for sustainable public health and economic development. Kingdom Saudi Arabia (KSA) is one of the largest countries with the highest economy in the Middle East region occupied by approximately thirty million citizens. Due to limited agricultural productivity, about 80% of its food demand is met through import fro.. Read More»