TY - JOUR
T1 - Accidental and deliberate microbiological contamination in the feed and food chains — How biotraceability may improve the response to bioterrorism
AU - Knutsson, Rickard
AU - van Rotterdam, Bart
AU - Fach, Patrick
AU - De Medici, Dario
AU - Fricker, Martina
AU - Löfström, Charlotta
AU - Ågren, Joakim
AU - Segerman, Bo
AU - Andersson, Gunnar
AU - Wielinga, Pieter
AU - Fenicia, Lucia
AU - Skiby, Jeffrey Edward
AU - Schultz, Anna Charlotte
AU - Ehling-Schulz, Monika
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - A next frontier of the global food safety agenda has to consider a broad spectrum of bio-risks, such as accidental and intentional contaminations in the food and feed chain. In this article, the background for the research needs related to biotraceability and response to bioterrorism incidents are outlined. Given the current scale of international trade any response need to be considered in an international context. Biotraceability (e.g the ability to use downstream information to point to processes or within a particular food chain that can be identified as the source of undesirable agents) is crucial in any food-born outbreak and particular in the response to bioterrorism events. In the later case, tested and proven biotraceability improves the following; (i) international collaboration of validated tracing tools and detection methods, (ii) multi-disciplinary expertise and collaboration in the field of food microbiology and conceptual modeling of the food chain, (iii) sampling as a key step in biotracing (iv) optimized sample preparation procedures, including laboratory work in Biosafety level 3 (BSL-3) laboratories, (v) biomarker discovery for relevant tracing and tracking applications, and (vi) high-throughput sequencing using bio-informatic platforms to speed up the characterization of the biological agent. By applying biotraceability, the response phase during a bioterrorism event may be shortened and is facilitated for tracing the origin of biological agent contamination.
AB - A next frontier of the global food safety agenda has to consider a broad spectrum of bio-risks, such as accidental and intentional contaminations in the food and feed chain. In this article, the background for the research needs related to biotraceability and response to bioterrorism incidents are outlined. Given the current scale of international trade any response need to be considered in an international context. Biotraceability (e.g the ability to use downstream information to point to processes or within a particular food chain that can be identified as the source of undesirable agents) is crucial in any food-born outbreak and particular in the response to bioterrorism events. In the later case, tested and proven biotraceability improves the following; (i) international collaboration of validated tracing tools and detection methods, (ii) multi-disciplinary expertise and collaboration in the field of food microbiology and conceptual modeling of the food chain, (iii) sampling as a key step in biotracing (iv) optimized sample preparation procedures, including laboratory work in Biosafety level 3 (BSL-3) laboratories, (v) biomarker discovery for relevant tracing and tracking applications, and (vi) high-throughput sequencing using bio-informatic platforms to speed up the characterization of the biological agent. By applying biotraceability, the response phase during a bioterrorism event may be shortened and is facilitated for tracing the origin of biological agent contamination.
U2 - 10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2010.10.011
DO - 10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2010.10.011
M3 - Journal article
SN - 0168-1605
VL - 145
SP - S123-S128
JO - International Journal of Food Microbiology
JF - International Journal of Food Microbiology
IS - Supplement 1
ER -