The factors which cause foodborne diseases and food poisoning are chemical materials such as pesticides, detergents and plastics, natural food toxins, parasites and microorganisms such as bacteria, yeast and mold.

If the amount of chemical materials, which contaminated to food from outside or added for special aim, over limit, They may cause food poisoning.

Foods are contaminated by metals from utensils that are not appropriate for food storage. Keeping acidic foods in dishes which include copper or lead causes heavy metal poisoning. So, foods must not contact directly with untinned copper, colored plastic or aluminium.

Pesticides which are used to increase efficiency in agricultural products may also contaminate foods due to misuse.

Some foods includes compounds which is named “toxin”. For example, certain fungi species, honey and rattooned potato may causes food poisoning due to natural toxins in their structure.

Microorganism, especially bacteria, are responsible for foodborne diseases. Generally, bacteria that grow in foods which are prepared or cooked under unhygienic conditions cause food poisonings.

U.S. President Barack Obama has appoint Kevin Concannon to the government’s public nutrition programs such as school lunch and food stamps, and Rajiv Shah to oversee agricultural research and education, the White House said on Friday.

Concannon is director of the Iowa Department of Human Services. The service is responsible for Medicaid, food assistance and low-income programs. He held similar positions in Maine and Oregon before appointment to the Iowa post in 2003.

Shah is director of agricultural development for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which awards grants to improve food quality and output in developing nations. In a previous post at the foundation, he helped develop and launch a project that raised $5 billion for child immunization. A medical doctor, Shah was medical advisor in Al Gore’s presidential campaign in 2000.

According to World Health Organisation’s (WHO) statistics, the most common fatal disease is lung cancer in many countries. According to another research, 25% of the lung cancer is due to cigarette that includes toxic carbon monoxide, nicotine and coal tar.

Although people like smoking, they also try to give up smoking due to its adverse effects. Several methods, include patches and gums, have been developed to help them. The last alternative one is oat extract.

According to a pilot study published in the journal Pharmacometrics,  oat extract can decrease tobacco consumption from about 20 to fewer than nine cigarettes per day.

The oat extract obtained from ancient type of wild oats by Frutarom and marketed under name Neuravena.
Neuravena was tested by researches from Tokyo Medical and Dental University and Meiji Pharmaceutical University, Fujii on eighth Japanese smokers (average age 32.5) and given daily supplements of 900 mg of Neuravena for 28 months. The researches reported that the average cigarette smoking decreased from 19.5 per day to 8.9 per day. Furthermore, the carbon monoxide levels in the breath of the participants decreased from 17 ppm to 11.9 ppm