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Pandemics and food systems - towards a proactive food safety approach to disease prevention & management
Food Security ( IF 6.7 ) Pub Date : 2020-07-10 , DOI: 10.1007/s12571-020-01074-3
Anaka Aiyar 1 , Prabhu Pingali 2
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Recent large-scale pandemics such as the covid19, H1N1, Swine flu, Ebola and the Nipah virus, which impacted human health and livelihoods, have come about due to inadequate food systems safeguards to detect, trace and eliminate threats arising from zoonotic diseases. Such diseases are transmitted to humans through their interaction with animals in the food value chain including through the consumption of bush meat. Climate change has also facilitated the emergence of new zoonotic diseases. The lack of adequately enforced food-safety standards in managed agricultural production systems creates the necessary conditions for diseases to mutate into highly contagious strains. The lack of food safety measures in handling, packaging and sales of food increases risks of cross-species contamination. Finally, increasing anti-microbial resistance, combined with rapid urbanization and global interconnectedness allows diseases to spread rapidly among humans. Thus, part of the reconstruction efforts, post covid19, should include prioritizing proactive investments in food safety. The key to stave off another such pandemic lies in integrating one-health knowledge on zoonotic diseases along with food safety measures along the food value chain. Refocusing policy priorities from disease control to prevention will improve international coordination efforts in pandemic prevention. Implementing such proactive actions will cost a very small fraction of the reconstruction budgets. However, the expected benefits of the food-safety approach will include preventing global economic losses due to pandemics.

中文翻译:

流行病和食品系统——采取积极的食品安全方法来预防和管理疾病

由于粮食系统保障措施不足,无法检测、追踪和消除人畜共患疾病带来的威胁,最近发生了影响人类健康和生计的大规模流行病,例如 covid19、H1N1、猪流感、埃博拉病毒和尼帕病毒。此类疾病通过与食物价值链中的动物的相互作用(包括通过食用丛林肉)传播给人类。气候变化也促进了新的人畜共患病的出现。在受管理的农业生产系统中缺乏充分执行的食品安全标准,为疾病变异为高度传染性菌株创造了必要条件。在食品的处理、包装和销售过程中缺乏食品安全措施会增加跨物种污染的风险。最后,增加抗菌素耐药性,再加上快速的城市化和全球互联互通,疾病在人类之间迅速传播。因此,covid19 之后的部分重建工作应包括优先考虑对食品安全的积极投资。避免再次发生此类流行病的关键在于将有关人畜共患病的单一健康知识与食品价值链中的食品安全措施相结合。将政策重点从疾病控制转向预防,将改善大流行预防的国际协调努力。实施此类主动行动将花费重建预算的一小部分。然而,食品安全方法的预期好处将包括防止因流行病造成的全球经济损失。因此,covid19 之后的部分重建工作应包括优先考虑对食品安全的积极投资。避免再次发生此类流行病的关键在于将有关人畜共患病的单一健康知识与食品价值链中的食品安全措施相结合。将政策重点从疾病控制转向预防,将改善大流行预防的国际协调努力。实施此类主动行动将花费重建预算的一小部分。然而,食品安全方法的预期好处将包括防止因流行病造成的全球经济损失。因此,covid19 之后的部分重建工作应包括优先考虑对食品安全的积极投资。避免再次发生此类流行病的关键在于将有关人畜共患病的单一健康知识与食品价值链中的食品安全措施相结合。将政策重点从疾病控制转向预防,将改善大流行预防的国际协调努力。实施此类主动行动将花费重建预算的一小部分。然而,食品安全方法的预期好处将包括防止因流行病造成的全球经济损失。避免再次发生此类流行病的关键在于将有关人畜共患病的单一健康知识与食品价值链中的食品安全措施相结合。将政策重点从疾病控制转向预防,将改善大流行预防的国际协调努力。实施此类主动行动将花费重建预算的一小部分。然而,食品安全方法的预期好处将包括防止因流行病造成的全球经济损失。避免再次发生此类流行病的关键在于将有关人畜共患病的单一健康知识与食品价值链中的食品安全措施相结合。将政策重点从疾病控制转向预防,将改善大流行预防的国际协调努力。实施此类主动行动将花费重建预算的一小部分。然而,食品安全方法的预期好处将包括防止因流行病造成的全球经济损失。
更新日期:2020-07-10
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