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Antarctica: Where food safety matters.
PALMER STATION, ANTARCTICA
TRIPLER ARMY MEDICAL CENTER, Hawaii – Buried in a mile of glacier ice and often described as one of the world’s most hostile environments, Antarctica is a windy, polar desert with record breaking temperatures that can reach below -140° F.
Due to its harsh winter climate, strong ocean currents, and dangerous sea ice formations, passage to Antarctica is difficult, making it the most remote and inaccessible continent in the world.
While this barren continent is officially uninhabited, the harsh weather and remote location does little to keep scientists away.
As many as 4,000 visiting scientists from around the globe live in research stations that dot the continent during the summer season, and approximately 1,000 brave the harsh winter months.
Keeping researchers healthy in such an isolated part of the world is critical; disease and illness can be devastating to this hard to reach population.
For the 40 or so National Science Foundation researchers at Palmer Station, having safe food, storage, and cooking areas are critical for their health and survival during their year-long operations.
U.S. Army Public Health Command-Pacific veterinary food safety officers partner with the National Science Foundation to ensure Palmer Station has a safe food supply and to perform independent food inspections throughout the entire annual resupply process.
For veterinary food safety officers like Capt. Austin Leedy, from Public Health Activity-San Diego, that means actually traveling to Antarctica to conduct inspections.
“Capt. Leedy’s mission is to inspect the facilities at Palmer Station and to provide a little bit of training to the folks on the ground who are geographically separated,” explained Lt. Col. Lauren Pecher, PHA-SD commander. “While there, she will ensure facilities are still meeting standards for food production and food storage and to make sure food preparation facilities are appropriate for use.”
But before inspections begin in Antarctica, fresh foods are inspected in Punta Arenas, Chile, before being loaded onto the research vessel Laurence M. Gould.
“So, before I get on the ship in Punta Arenas, I will do receipt inspections on the fresh food that is destined to Palmer Station,” Leedy explained. “I have the crew open every box and I inspect everything, because it is very important that I look at the food before it gets on the ship to ensure it is in good quality. We don’t want anyone to get sick from the food that is being delivered.”
For Army food safety officers, preventive medicine is a key part of their mission.
“Food inspection in general is critically important to ensure not just the quality of the food that people are consuming, but to also ensure their safety from foodborne diseases,” explained Pecher. “Historically, during wars and military operations, disease killed more people than battle injuries, and foodborne diseases have been a large part of that. So, preventing foodborne illness is a critical way we support U.S. operations throughout the world.”
“We focus on prevention,” Leedy explained. “We don’t want to be treating people on a ship or on a station as unique and special as Palmer, because they have a very small amount of people, in a very small amount of space. If they get sick, it’s going to spread like wildfire in both populations. So it’s very important that we keep them healthy.”
As part of that preventative measure, Leedy suits up in protective gear to observe cooking processes both on the ship and at Palmer Station.
More here:
https://www.dvidshub.net/news/355875/antarctica-food-safety-matters