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Unsafe food causes 1.5 million deaths a year, the WHO warns

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The World Health Organization warns that unsafe food harms millions of people worldwide, with children being particularly impacted.

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More than 860 million people get sick and 1.5 million die every year worldwide from unsafe food, warned the World Health Organization. In a new report published before World Food Safety Day on June 7, WHO estimates that millions of people around the world suffer serious health consequences as a result of inadequately contaminated or manipulated food consumption, Euronews announces.

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Last Updated on June 8, 2026 1:03 am by INDIAN AWAAZ Health Children under five years of age are almost three times more likely to fall ill due to unsafe food than older children and adults. The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned in a new analysis that this problem is responsible for 1.5 million deaths worldwide every year. According to the UN health agency, young children constitute only 9 percent of the global population but account fo…

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More than 860 million people get sick every year, and about 1.5 million die from inadequately contaminated or manipulated food, warns WHO.

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Insecure foods cause 866 million diseases and 1.5 million deaths every year, with small children at greater risk. To say this is the World Health Organization (OMS) that, on the occasion of the Food Safety Day of 7 June 2026, has released updated estimates on food-borne diseases. The silent danger in our dishes: arsenic and lead cause 73% of deaths for unsafe food according to the new data Oms News.com Children under the age of five run a risk a…

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Notizie.com broke the news on Sunday, June 7, 2026.
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