Introduction: Food-borne disease is a major public health issue in Vietnam. The contamination of
popular foods can occur all along the food value chains. It is important to understand how and where
food safety issues arise in order to mitigate and prevent food-borne diseases. Risk-based approach ...
Hung Nguyen-Viet
,
Sinh Dang Xuan
,
Tran Thi Tuyet Hanh
,
Phuc Pham Duc
,
Grace, Delia
,
Unger, Fred
,
Makita, K.
,
[Risk-based approach to food safety research: Application to pork value chains in Vietnam]
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Risk-based approach to food safety research: Application to pork value chains in Vietnam
Food-borne disease is a major public health issue in Vietnam. The contamination of popular foods can occur all along the food value chain. It is important to understand how and where food safety issues arise to mitigate and prevent food-borne diseases. Risk-based approach is a tool for managing f...
Hung Nguyen-Viet
,
Sinh Dang Xuan
,
Tran Thi Tuyet Hanh
,
Phuc Pham Duc
,
Grace, Delia
,
Unger, Fred
,
Makita, K.
,
[Risk-based approach for food safety applied to pork value chain in Vietnam]
,
Risk-based approach for food safety applied to pork value chain in Vietnam
In Vietnam, pork accounts for 75% of total meat consumed
daily at households. However, pork may contain high levels of
microbial contamination such as Salmonella and Escherichia coli
which might cause harm to consumers. To determine microbial
contamination along the pork value chain, we collected...
Sinh Dang Xuan
,
Hung Nguyen-Viet
,
Phuc Pham Duc
,
Ngan Tran Thi
,
Thanh Nguyen Tien
,
Unger, Fred
,
Makita, K.
,
Grace, Delia
,
[Hygiene and microbial contamination along the pork value chain in Vietnam]
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Hygiene and microbial contamination along the pork value chain in Vietnam
Desissa, F.
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Makita, K.
,
Teklu, A.
,
Zewde, G.
,
Grace, Delia
,
[Raw milk consumption and its implication for public health]
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Raw milk consumption and its implication for public health
Objectives: We investigated how the consumers’ practices of eating and handling
pork are related to food safety in Hung Yen and Nghe An provinces, Vietnam.
Methods: A cross-sectional survey with interview of 416 respondents and six focus
group discussions were conducted. Information on household ...
Sinh Dang Xuan
,
Phuc Pham Duc
,
Unger, Fred
,
Makita, K.
,
Ngan Tran Thi
,
Hung Pham Van
,
Grace, Delia
,
Hung Nguyen-Viet
,
[Assessment and perspective of Vietnamese consumers’ pork handling and eating practices]
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Assessment and perspective of Vietnamese consumers’ pork handling and eating practices
The research covered three slaughterhouses in Nairobi and Eldoret. The objectives
were to assess the prevalence of E. coli O157 serotype contaminated carcasses at
dispatch, the possible cross-contamination during transportation, and knowledge, attitude
and handling practices that led to increased...
Kago, J.
,
Kang'ethe, Erastus K.
,
Wangoh, J.
,
Makita, K.
,
[Escherichia coli O157 serotype in beef carcasses post slaughterhouse in Nairobi and Eldoret, Kenya]
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Escherichia coli O157 serotype in beef carcasses post slaughterhouse in Nairobi and Eldoret, Kenya
Purpose: In October 2013, an outbreak of porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) was confirmed in Japan. The disease spread countrywide, and more than 400,000 pigs died in total as of March 22, 2015. The present study was conducted to understand the factors having caused such a wide inter-farm spread.
Me...
Makita, K.
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Toyomaki, H.
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Sekiguchi, S.
,
Sasaki, Y.
,
Sueyoshi, M.
,
[Factors associated with inter-farm spread of porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) in Kagoshima and Miyazaki Prefectures, Japan]
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Factors associated with inter-farm spread of porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) in Kagoshima and Miyazaki Prefectures, Japan
Kenya has the largest dairy herd and highest
per capita milk consumption in east Africa.
Kenya has also experienced multiple
aflatoxicosis outbreaks in recent years, and
several surveys have reported high levels
of contamination in maize. When lactating
cows consume feed which is contaminated
wit...
Sirma, A.
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Senerwa, D.M.
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Lindahl, Johanna F.
,
Makita, K.
,
Kang'ethe, Erastus K.
,
Grace, Delia
,
[Aflatoxin M1 survey in dairy households in Kenya]
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Aflatoxin M1 survey in dairy households in Kenya
Desissa, F.
,
Makita, K.
,
Teklu, A.
,
Zewde, G.
,
Grace, Delia
,
[Is informally marketed milk free of Staphylococcus aureus? Isolation and identification of Staphylococcus aureus from informally marketed bovine milk in urban and periurban areas of Debre-Zeit, Ethiopia]
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Is informally marketed milk free of Staphylococcus aureus? Isolation and identification of Staphylococcus aureus from informally marketed bovine milk in urban and periurban areas of Debre-Zeit, Ethiopia
Makita, K.
,
Grace, Delia
,
Randolph, Thomas F.
,
Baker, Derek
,
Staal, Steven J.
,
[Safe food, fair food: building capacity to improve the safety of animal-source foods and ensure continued market access for poor farmers in sub-Saharan Africa]
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Safe food, fair food: building capacity to improve the safety of animal-source foods and ensure continued market access for poor farmers in sub-Saharan Africa