Food safety and animal health issues are increasingly important constraints to smallholder pig
production in Viet Nam. Recent studies have highlighted the significant prevalence of animal
disease and food‐borne pathogens inherent within the Vietnamese pig sector. These in turn have
important nega...
Rich, Karl M.
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Huyen Nguyen, Thi-Thu
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Ha Duong-Nam
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Hung Pham Van
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Nga Nguyen Thi Duong
,
Unger, Fred
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Lapar, Ma. Lucila
,
[Market-based approaches to food safety and animal health interventions: Lessons from smallholder pig value chains in Vietnam]
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Market-based approaches to food safety and animal health interventions: Lessons from smallholder pig value chains in Vietnam
Food borne diseases (FBD) are an increasing global public health concern with
estimated 1 in 10 people falling ill every year from eating contaminated food causing
420,000 deaths. Diarrheal diseases accounted for more than half of the global
burden with children at especial risk (WHO 2015). Evide...
Unger, Fred
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Hung Nguyen-Viet
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Sinh Dang Xuan
,
Phuc Pham Duc
,
Pham Van Hung
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Lapar, Ma. Lucila
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Marshall, Karen
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Duong Van Nhiem
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Makita, K.
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Grace, Delia
,
[Food safety assessment and challenges along small-scale pig systems in Vietnam]
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Food safety assessment and challenges along small-scale pig systems in Vietnam
Over the recent years ILRI has been working in the pig value chain in selected regions of Vietnam with focus on pig productivity and doing assessments of animal health and food safety constraints using various tolls such as PRA, questionnaires and participatory methods. Diseases in pigs have been...
Unger, Fred
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Vuong Bui Nghia
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Wieland, Barbara
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[Prevalence of major pig production diseases in 2 provinces of Northern Vietnam (Hoa Binh and Vinh Phuc)]
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Prevalence of major pig production diseases in 2 provinces of Northern Vietnam (Hoa Binh and Vinh Phuc)
Traditionally applied free grazing/roaming of pigs is a known risks factor for selected zoonoses such trichinellosis and cysticercosis which have the potential to cause long lasting health problems in affected humans with sporadic complications such as fatal encephalitis. The ban of free grazing ...
Unger, Fred
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Chau Thi Minh Long
,
Nguyen Viet Khong
,
[Prevalence of trichinellosis and cysticercosis in indigenous pigs from ethnic minorities for selected communes in the Central Highlands (Dak Lak)]
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Prevalence of trichinellosis and cysticercosis in indigenous pigs from ethnic minorities for selected communes in the Central Highlands (Dak Lak)
Hung Nguyen-Viet
,
Unger, Fred
,
[Pork value chain and safety in Vietnam: From research to interventions]
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Pork value chain and safety in Vietnam: From research to interventions
Unger, Fred
,
Hung Nguyen-Viet
,
Pham Duc Phuc
,
Sinh Dang Xuan
,
Pham Van Hung
,
Huyen Le Thi Thanh
,
Tuyet-Hanh Tran Thi
,
Makita, Kohei
,
Grace, Delia
,
[Food safety in the pork value chain and pathways towards safer pork in Vietnam]
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Food safety in the pork value chain and pathways towards safer pork in Vietnam
Insufficient hygienic practices of food handlers such as poor personal
hygiene associated with foodborne illness can lead to crosscontamination
along food chains. This study aimed to assess knowledge,
attitudes and practices (KAP) of food handlers regarding food
safety and hygienic practices in a...
Jenpanich, C.
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Unger, Fred
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Alter, T.
,
Chaisowwong, W.
,
[Assessment of hygienic practices among pig slaughterhouses and markets in Chiang Mai Province, Thailand]
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Assessment of hygienic practices among pig slaughterhouses and markets in Chiang Mai Province, Thailand
Insufficient hygienic practices of food handlers such as poor personal
hygiene associated with foodborne illness can lead to crosscontamination
along food chains. This study aimed to assess knowledge,
attitudes and practices (KAP) of food handlers regarding food
safety and hygienic practices in a...
Jenpanich, C.
,
Unger, Fred
,
Alter, T.
,
Chaisowwong, W.
,
[Assessment of hygienic practices among pig slaughterhouses and markets in Chiang Mai Province, Thailand]
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Assessment of hygienic practices among pig slaughterhouses and markets in Chiang Mai Province, Thailand
Most people in rural areas of Lao PDR are living in close proximity to their livestock which may increase risk of being infected with pig zoonoses, either via direct contact with livestock, via consumption of contaminated pig products or mosquito vectors. Between 2006 and 2015 two ACIAR and one I...
Inthavong, Phouth
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Khamlome, Boualam
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Solomon, V.
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Vongxay, K.
,
Allen, J.
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Okello, A.
,
Conlan, J.
,
Gilbert, J.
,
Unger, Fred
,
[One Health studies of pig associated zoonoses in smallholder pig production in Lao PDR]
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One Health studies of pig associated zoonoses in smallholder pig production in Lao PDR