Report on Stakeholders' activities in the area of emerging risks

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doi:10.2903/sp.efsa.2011.en-170

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“…The EFSA Scientific Committee in 2007 stated that “ an emerging risk to human, animal and or plant health is understood as a risk resulting from a newly identified hazard to which significant exposure may occur or from unexpected new or increased significant exposure and/or susceptibility to a known hazard ” (31). Thus, AFM1 in milk is a well-known risk which, due to changing scenarios, shows an increasing and still poorly predictable exposure pattern.…”

Section: Global Aspectsmentioning

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The Hotspot for (Global) One Health in Primary Food Production: Aflatoxin M1 in Dairy Products

Frazzoli

Gherardi

Saxena

et al. 2017

Front. Public Health

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One Health involves the multifaceted environment-animal-human web: nevertheless, the role of toxicological issues has yet to be fully explored in this context. Aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) contamination of feeds is a risk for the health of several farm animals, including fishes; milk is the only food of animal origin where a significant feed-food carry over may occur. The main AFB1-related compound present in milk is the hydroxy-metabolite aflatoxin M1 (AFM1). Besides contamination of raw milk, AFM1 is of concern for the whole dairy chain; AFM1 may also contaminate the milk of several other ruminants used for milk/dairy production. In a One Health perspective, milk represents a sentinel matrix for AFB1 vulnerability of the agro-food system, that is crucial in a phase when food/nutritional security becomes a global issue and climatic changes may affect agricultural productions. In the global setting, food chain exposure to long-term toxicants, such as AFM1, is a growing concern for economically developing countries, whereas global trade and climatic change makes AFM1 an emerging hot issue in economically developed countries as well. We critically review the state of the art on AFM1 risk assessment and risk management using two scenarios as case studies: a European Union country where the health system aims at ensuring a high-level protection of food chain (Italy) and the world’s largest (and economically developing) producer of dairy products by volume (India). The case studies are used to provide building blocks for a global One Health framework.

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Section: Global Aspectsmentioning

confidence: 99%