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New World Bank report says food-borne illnesses cost US$ 110 billion per year...
AgHealth Rinsing fresh fish in Accra, Ghana (photo credit: ILRI/Kennedy Bomfeh). A new World Bank study finds that the impact of unsafe food costs low- and middle-income economies about US$ 110...
View ArticleRecruitment of Scientist Epidemiology for food safety risk assessment and...
The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) seeks to recruit a Scientist – Epidemiology to support ILRI’s growing activities in food safety risk assessment and risk management in informal...
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Why foodborne disease is becoming a development priority—and is a solvable...
ILRI Clippings The huge economic burden of foodborne disease is driven by public health not trade. This opinion piece is written by Delia Grace Randolph, joint leader of the Animal and Human Health...
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Six-million-dollar investment to tackle the causes of foodborne disease in...
ILRI news Principal food safety investigators conducted a press conference to launch four food safety programs in Ethiopia, 14–15 Feb 2019, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. (Left to right): Frank Arestrup,...
View ArticleVacancy for a researcher on quantitative microbiological risk assessment
We are looking for a researcher who is a motivated team player with a great interest in the quantitative microbiological risk assessment (QMRA) and who has an affinity with behaviour of foodborne...
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Food Safety a ‘Major Public Health Issue,’ Says UF/IFAS Professor Ahead of...
Written by Kirsten Romaguera, University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) The World Health Organization estimates that each year, 600 million people suffer from an...
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Why food safety in Africa’s informal markets must be driven by consumers
Opinion piece by Arie Havelaar, University of Florida and Ashagrie Zewdu Woldegiorgis, Addis Ababa University. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read...
View ArticleWildlife markets in the pandemic: Prohibit or preserve them? Ban or promote...
In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the SARS-coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), which is suspected to have originated in a bat or other wild animal, calls are increasing for bans on consuming game...
View ArticleExperts call on African countries to prioritize food safety in urban food...
The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa launched its 2020 Africa Agriculture Status Report during the African Green Revolution Forum virtual summit hosted in Kigali, Rwanda on 8-11 September...
View ArticleMore on why outright banning of ‘wet markets’ (while ‘giving virologists the...
Reposted from ILRI News, written by Susan MacMillan Liam Taylor, a reporter for The Economist, recently interviewed Uganda-based food safety experts at the International Livestock Research Institute...
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