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Food-Safety Hazards in the Pork Chain in Nagaland, North East India: Implications for Human Health
Pork occupies an important place in the diet of the population of Nagaland, one of the North East Indian states. We carried out a pilot study along the pork meat production chain, from live animal to end consumer. The goal was to obtain information about the presence of selected food borne hazards i...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3924451/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24368430 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph110100403 |
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author | Fahrion, Anna Sophie Jamir, Lanu Richa, Kenivole Begum, Sonuwara Rutsa, Vilatuo Ao, Simon Padmakumar, Varijaksha P. Deka, Ram Pratim Grace, Delia |
author_facet | Fahrion, Anna Sophie Jamir, Lanu Richa, Kenivole Begum, Sonuwara Rutsa, Vilatuo Ao, Simon Padmakumar, Varijaksha P. Deka, Ram Pratim Grace, Delia |
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description | Pork occupies an important place in the diet of the population of Nagaland, one of the North East Indian states. We carried out a pilot study along the pork meat production chain, from live animal to end consumer. The goal was to obtain information about the presence of selected food borne hazards in pork in order to assess the risk deriving from these hazards to the health of the local consumers and make recommendations for improving food safety. A secondary objective was to evaluate the utility of risk-based approaches to food safety in an informal food system. We investigated samples from pigs and pork sourced at slaughter in urban and rural environments, and at retail, to assess a selection of food-borne hazards. In addition, consumer exposure was characterized using information about hygiene and practices related to handling and preparing pork. A qualitative hazard characterization, exposure assessment and hazard characterization for three representative hazards or hazard proxies, namely Enterobacteriaceae, T. solium cysticercosis and antibiotic residues, is presented. Several important potential food-borne pathogens are reported for the first time including Listeria spp. and Brucella suis. This descriptive pilot study is the first risk-based assessment of food safety in Nagaland. We also characterise possible interventions to be addressed by policy makers, and supply data to inform future risk assessments. |
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spelling | pubmed-39244512014-02-18 Food-Safety Hazards in the Pork Chain in Nagaland, North East India: Implications for Human Health Fahrion, Anna Sophie Jamir, Lanu Richa, Kenivole Begum, Sonuwara Rutsa, Vilatuo Ao, Simon Padmakumar, Varijaksha P. Deka, Ram Pratim Grace, Delia Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Pork occupies an important place in the diet of the population of Nagaland, one of the North East Indian states. We carried out a pilot study along the pork meat production chain, from live animal to end consumer. The goal was to obtain information about the presence of selected food borne hazards in pork in order to assess the risk deriving from these hazards to the health of the local consumers and make recommendations for improving food safety. A secondary objective was to evaluate the utility of risk-based approaches to food safety in an informal food system. We investigated samples from pigs and pork sourced at slaughter in urban and rural environments, and at retail, to assess a selection of food-borne hazards. In addition, consumer exposure was characterized using information about hygiene and practices related to handling and preparing pork. A qualitative hazard characterization, exposure assessment and hazard characterization for three representative hazards or hazard proxies, namely Enterobacteriaceae, T. solium cysticercosis and antibiotic residues, is presented. Several important potential food-borne pathogens are reported for the first time including Listeria spp. and Brucella suis. This descriptive pilot study is the first risk-based assessment of food safety in Nagaland. We also characterise possible interventions to be addressed by policy makers, and supply data to inform future risk assessments. MDPI 2013-12-24 2014-01 /pmc/articles/PMC3924451/ /pubmed/24368430 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph110100403 Text en © 2013 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Fahrion, Anna Sophie Jamir, Lanu Richa, Kenivole Begum, Sonuwara Rutsa, Vilatuo Ao, Simon Padmakumar, Varijaksha P. Deka, Ram Pratim Grace, Delia Food-Safety Hazards in the Pork Chain in Nagaland, North East India: Implications for Human Health |
title | Food-Safety Hazards in the Pork Chain in Nagaland, North East India: Implications for Human Health |
title_full | Food-Safety Hazards in the Pork Chain in Nagaland, North East India: Implications for Human Health |
title_fullStr | Food-Safety Hazards in the Pork Chain in Nagaland, North East India: Implications for Human Health |
title_full_unstemmed | Food-Safety Hazards in the Pork Chain in Nagaland, North East India: Implications for Human Health |
title_short | Food-Safety Hazards in the Pork Chain in Nagaland, North East India: Implications for Human Health |
title_sort | food-safety hazards in the pork chain in nagaland, north east india: implications for human health |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3924451/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24368430 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph110100403 |
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