Asia Pacific Journal of Medical Toxicology (Dec 2015)
Asian Implications of Aflatoxin and Dioxin Foodborne Chemical Exposures Based on World Health Organization Estimates
- Herman Gibb,
- Brecht Devleesschauwer,
- P. Michael Bolger,
- Felicia Wu,
- Janine Ezendam,
- Julie Cliff,
- Marco Zeilmaker,
- Philippe Jean-Paul Verger,
- John Pitt,
- Janis Baines,
- Gabriel Adegoke,
- Reza Afshari,
- Yan Liu,
- Bas Bokkers,
- Henk van Loveren,
- Marcel Mengelers,
- Esther Brandon,
- Arie Hendrik Havelaar,
- David C. Bellinger
Affiliations
- Herman Gibb
- Gibb Epidemiology Consulting LLC, Arlington, VA, USA
- Brecht Devleesschauwer
- Department of Virology, Parasitology and Immunology, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium | Institute of Health and Society (IRSS), Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium | Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium | Emerging Pathogens Institute and Animal Sciences Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
- P. Michael Bolger
- Exponent, Center for Chemical Regulation and Food Safety, Washington, DC, USA
- Felicia Wu
- Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA | Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
- Janine Ezendam
- National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, Netherlands
- Julie Cliff
- Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Mozambique
- Marco Zeilmaker
- National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, Netherlands
- Philippe Jean-Paul Verger
- Department of Food Safety and Zoonoses, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
- John Pitt
- CSIRO Food and Nutrition Flagship, North Ryde, Australia
- Janis Baines
- Food Data Analysis Section, Food Standards Australia New Zealand, Canberra, Australia
- Gabriel Adegoke
- Department of Food Technology, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
- Reza Afshari
- Environmental Health Services, British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, BC, Canada
- Yan Liu
- INTERTEK, Oak Brook, IL, USA
- Bas Bokkers
- National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, Netherlands
- Henk van Loveren
- National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, Netherlands
- Marcel Mengelers
- National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, Netherlands
- Esther Brandon
- National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, Netherlands
- Arie Hendrik Havelaar
- Emerging Pathogens Institute and Animal Sciences Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA | National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, Netherlands | Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
- David C. Bellinger
- Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.22038/apjmt.2015.6358
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 4,
no. 4
pp. 131 – 133
Abstract
All people need food. Unsafe foods; however, may cause diseases ranging from diarrhea to cancer. Chemicals in food are a worldwide health concern. In 2006, the World Health Organization (WHO) organized a consultation on the global burden of foodborne diseases. Work to estimate this burden began in 2007 and was carried out by the WHO Foodborne Disease Burden Epidemiology Reference Group (FERG), which included a Chemical and Toxins Disease Task Force. The results of 8 years of work were released in December 2015.
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