"Occasional reports of incidents involving food-borne illness associated with international travel are reminders of the importance of ensuring the quality of food and drinking water aboard aircraft, the Guide says. The boldest headlines, however, have been generated by the potential for the transmission through commercial aircraft flights of communicable diseases such as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and extremely drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis. They have created a renewed interest in an aircraft environment conducive to health, the Guide says. This edition of the booklet addresses 'water, food, waste disposal, cleaning and disinfection of facilities, [disease] vector control and cargo safety, with the ultimate goal of assisting all types of airport and aircraft operators and all other responsible bodies in achieving high standards of hygiene and sanitation, to protect travelers and crews engaged in air transport.'... Airport and operator management personnel, as well as cabin crewmembers, need to keep an eye out for possible contamination."
More + / -
- Rick Darby , AeroSafety World

"[H]as brought to the forefront of public professional and political attention the significance of breast feeding and the need for appropriate programs to promote this fundamental biological activity. These need to include a substantial code to monitor the activities of the formula industry to avoid unaffordable formulas being thrust with modern high pressure marketing tactics at uninformed unsophisticated populations where environmental hygiene and poverty make their correct utilization impossible."
More + / -
- The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

“This report represents an important step towards preparing policy-makers health service planners and other relevant parties to take action that will reduce the threats chronic conditions pose to the health of their citizens their health care systems and their economies.”

... Invaluable to both trainer teachers and those in training... well worth purchasing for use by staff at all levels...