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Foodborne outbreaks caused by Cyclospora: the message is more important than the messenger

Whenever we eat, we may be consuming ingredients sourced from anywhere in the world. Globalization of our food supply has occurred over the past few decades in response to changing consumer tastes, limited growing seasons in temperate climates, increased costs of food production in developed countries, and decreased costs of shipping food items and ingredients over very long distances across international borders [1–3]. Even the growing popularity of local farmers’ markets and the promotion of community-based food movements will not diminish the importance of global food sourcing in the near future. Rather, global climate change and associated weather patterns, such as the prolonged droughts being experienced across major fresh produce growing regions of California and other regions of the world, will increase the need to source these items from foreign markets [4]. Ensuring the safety of foods in a global marketplace requires harmonized food regulations, a high degree of coordination between national food safety authorities, and increased vigilance on the part of food companies that produce, ship and use the imported foods [5, 6]. Effective food safety systems must be able to do the following: