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Risk Assessment and Risk Management for Foodborne Pathogens, Antimicrobial Resistance and Contaminants along the Food Chain

A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Quality and Safety".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 December 2024 | Viewed by 1380

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Ivan Nastasijevic

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Principal Research Fellow, Institute of Meat Hygiene and Technology, Belgrade, Serbia
Interests: food safety; food borne pathogens; antimicrobial resistance; food (meat) inspection; food (meat) technology; Longitudinal and Integrated Food Safety Assurance (LISA)
Dr. Jelena Petrović

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Principal Research Fellow, Scientific Veterinary Institute `Novi Sad`, Novi Sad, Serbia
Interests: game meat safety; food borne pathogens; food contaminants; risk Assessment

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The access to sufficient, safe, nutritious and affordable food is a basic human right. To ensure that the food supply chain is in accordance with this right, the governments and food business operators should create, support and control the implementation of effective and efficient control strategies along the food production chain based on a holistic perspective. This should be based on Longitudinal and Integrated Food Safety Assurance (LISA). It includes implementation of Codex-based Appropriate Level of Protection (ALOP) and Food Safety Objectives (FSOs), including related Performance Criteria (PC) applied by the food industry, relevant guidelines and legislation, detection and control of foodborne hazards, risk-based food inspection, audit of food safety system, and training of staff.

The aim of this Special Issue is to provide evidence-based and thoughtful insights, recommendations and solutions intended to competent authorities and the food industry regarding the most effective and available risk mitigation strategies to tackle contamination along the food chain. It encompasses monitoring and surveillance of foodborne hazards addressing relevant modules in food production, epidemiology of foodborne diseases and antimicrobial resistance (AMR), prevention and control of food contamination at multiple points along the food chain, usage of novel methods and systems for tracking and detecting food borne hazards, digital technologies for food chain data processing and traceability, integration of Food Chain Information (FCI) and Harmonized Epidemiological Indicators (HEIs) along the food chain (bottom-up and top-down approach), novel food safety interventions, risk-based food safety management systems (HACCP), inspection, training of staff, as well as the One Health approach as a solution to tackle the food contamination and AMR in an integrated manner. Papers highlighting the connections between food safety systems, food chain sustainability and public health outcomes are also welcome. Different types of manuscripts will be accepted for submission, including original research, reviews and short communication papers.

Dr. Ivan Nastasijevic
Guest Editor

Dr. Jelena Petrović
Guest Editor Assistant

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Keywords

  • food safety
  • foodborne pathogens
  • antimicrobial resistance (AMR)
  • chemical contaminants
  • food chain information (FCI)
  • harmonized epidemiological indicators (HEIs)
  • food inspection
  • novel methods
  • longitudinally integrated safety assurance (LISA)
  • one health

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Antimicrobial Resistance in Aquaculture: Risk Mitigation within the One Health Context
by Milan Milijasevic, Slavica Veskovic-Moracanin, Jelena Babic Milijasevic, Jelena Petrovic and Ivan Nastasijevic
Foods 2024, 13(15), 2448; https://doi.org/10.3390/foods13152448 - 2 Aug 2024
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The application of antimicrobials in aquaculture primarily aims to prevent and treat bacterial infections in fish, but their inappropriate use may result in the emergence of zoonotic antibiotic-resistant bacteria and the subsequent transmission of resistant strains to humans via food consumption. The aquatic [...] Read more.
The application of antimicrobials in aquaculture primarily aims to prevent and treat bacterial infections in fish, but their inappropriate use may result in the emergence of zoonotic antibiotic-resistant bacteria and the subsequent transmission of resistant strains to humans via food consumption. The aquatic environment serves as a potential reservoir for resistant bacteria, providing an ideal breeding ground for development of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). The mutual inter-connection of intensive fish-farming systems with terrestrial environments, the food processing industry and human population creates pathways for the transmission of resistant bacteria, exacerbating the problem further. The aim of this study was to provide an overview of the most effective and available risk mitigation strategies to tackle AMR in aquaculture, based on the One Health (OH) concept. The stringent antimicrobial use guidelines, promoting disease control methods like enhanced farm biosecurity measures and vaccinations, alternatives to antibiotics (ABs) (prebiotics, probiotics, immunostimulants, essential oils (EOs), peptides and phage therapy), feeding practices, genetics, monitoring water quality, and improving wastewater treatment, rather than applying excessive use of antimicrobials, can effectively prevent the development of AMR and release of resistant bacteria into the environment and food. The contribution of the environment to AMR development traditionally receives less attention, and, therefore, environmental aspects should be included more prominently in OH efforts to predict, detect and prevent the risks to health. This is of particular importance for low and middle-income countries with a lack of integration of the national AMR action plans (NAPs) with the aquaculture-producing environment. Integrated control of AMR in fisheries based on the OH approach can contribute to substantial decrease in resistance, and such is the case in Asia, where in aquaculture, the percentage of antimicrobial compounds with resistance exceeding 50% (P50) decreased from 52% to 22% within the period of the previous two decades. Full article
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