Volume 30, Issue 1, January 2014, Pages 37–52
Review
Impacts of globalisation on foodborne parasites
Highlights
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- Globalisation facilitates the spread of foodborne parasites.
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- Globalisation of foodborne parasites poses novel risks to animal and human health.
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- Detection, diagnostics, and traceability are substantial challenges.
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- Globalisation may offer collaborative opportunities to combat foodborne parasites.
Globalisation
is a manmade phenomenon encompassing the spread and movement of
everything, animate and inanimate, material and intangible, around the
planet. The intentions of globalisation may be worthy – but may also
have unintended consequences. Pathogens may also be spread, enabling
their establishment in new niches and exposing new human and animal
populations to infection. The plethora of foodborne parasites that could
be distributed by globalisation has only recently been acknowledged and
will provide challenges for clinicians, veterinarians, diagnosticians,
and everyone concerned with food safety. Globalisation may also provide
the resources to overcome some of these challenges. It will facilitate
sharing of methods and approaches, and establishment of systems and
databases that enable control of parasites entering the global food
chain.
Keywords
- epidemiology;
- establishment;
- food safety;
- import;
- surveillance;
- transmission