Randolph (Grace), Delia ORCID: 0000-0002-0195-9489 , Bonfoh, Bassirou, Hasler, Barbara and Nguyen-Viet, Hung (2024) Editorial: Food safety in low- and middle-income countries. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 8:1358897. pp. 1-6. ISSN 2571-581X (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2024.1358897)

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Abstract

This is the first special edition on food safety in informal markets in low-and-middle income countries (LMICs). Despite their important public health and socio-economic impacts, foodborne diseases have only recently gained the attention of development institutes and initiatives (Grace, 2023). The is the result of growing appreciation of the enormous burden of foodborne disease in LMICs: the health burden is comparable to that of malaria, HIV/AIDs or tuberculosis and the economic cost is more than 100 billion USD a year (Havelaar et al., 2015; Jaffee et al., 2019). Most of the burden is caused by microbial and parasitic infections and most of these are acquired from fresh foods purchased in mass domestic markets in LMICs (Grace, 2015).

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	foodborne disease; informal markets; Africa; Asia; risk assessment; risk management; animal source food
Subjects:	Q Science > Q Science (General) S Agriculture > S Agriculture (General)
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Engineering & Science Faculty of Engineering & Science > Natural Resources Institute Faculty of Engineering & Science > Natural Resources Institute > Food & Markets Department Faculty of Engineering & Science > Natural Resources Institute > Food Systems Research Group
Last Modified:	04 Apr 2024 17:58
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/46554

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