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Food safety and aflatoxins in Africa
Prof. Sandy Thomas, Director, Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition
Global Panel and PACA Roundtable – Accra – 12 April 2016
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The Global Panel: who we are
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Pane
l Mem
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The benefits of improving nutrition
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2016 Work programme• African Leaders for Nutrition
24 May: Lusaka, Zambia • Foresight Report Summer: Rome, Italy • Regional Workshop 5-6 September: Nairobi, Kenya• SAPLING Initiative 6-7 October: New Delhi, India• Five briefs Production and global dissemination throughout 2016
Image: DFAT
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New policy brief on food safetyAssuring Safe Food Systems: Policy Options for a
Healthier Food Supply
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Food safety burdenEvery year, an estimated:- 1 in 10 people fall ill after eating contaminated food, - 420,000 die, resulting in the loss of 33 million ‘healthy life years’
Children under 5 years are most affected; accounting for almost 33% of all food contamination deaths, although they represent only 9% of the world’s population.
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Global burden of foodborne disease (DALYs)
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Why food safety matters to nutrition
Unsafe food can:
•affect nutrition directly resulting in impaired growth and development
•indirectly, affecting the availability of and people’s access to safe, nutritious food
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Food safety threats in Africa Food safety is a threat to:•Public health •Agriculture •Food systems
It affects:•Trade•Rural incomes & purchasing power•Worker productivity •Consumer confidence
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• Integrated policy actions backed up by regulation, surveillance.
• Training of those involved in the food environment.
How to assure a healthier food supply?
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The Global Panel recommends that policymakers consider actions across the food system:
•In the food production domain •In the markets & trade domain•In the consumer domain
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Key Policy Recommendations:•Integrate food safety policymaking with agriculture and nutrition; and establish context appropriate national regulatory frameworks; •Strengthen national research on foodborne diseases and the effects on malnutrition;•Strengthen food safety information systems;•Promote enhanced awareness and application of practices to prevent and mitigate agricultural hazards;•Support inclusive and progressive formalisation of markets, including investment in infrastructure and storage facilities;•Support enhanced consumer awareness of the importance of food safety in ensuring access to high quality diets.
Get your copy: glopan.org/food-safety
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Impact of aflatoxins
30% of liver cancer cases in Africa
Affect up to 25% of the world’s food crops
Africa loses up to US$
670 million annually
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African Union established a flagship program focusing on aflatoxins
PACA’s mission:- To support agricultural development, safeguard consumer health and facilitate trade by
- Catalyzing, coordinating and increasing effective aflatoxin control along agricultural value chains in Africa
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Key messages• Food safety, nutrition,
food security and public health are linked.
• Moral economic and social imperatives.
• Partnership, multi-sectoral and integrated approach.
• Coherent strategies, evidence based plans and accountability.
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