TORONTO — In a presentation at IAFP’s 2023 Annual Meeting, Kali Kniel, Ph.D., from the University of Delaware Department of Animal and Food Sciences, shed light on the importance of wastewater analysis in tackling the detection challenges posed by foodborne viruses and parasites.
Throughout history, wastewater analysis has played a
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Twelve institutions have formed a center of excellence to focus on food safety risk assessment and authenticity.
The consortium is led by the University of Donja Gorica in Montenegro and includes the University of Padova, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR).
The Centre
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Urban farmers growing vegetables in Africa could accidentally be helping to spread disease by irrigating crops with wastewater, according to researchers.
In a report published in the Environmental Research journal, the scientists found evidence in Burkina Faso canal water samples of virulent pathogens commonly responsible for waterborne diseases which
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