Policy Position Papers
The Use of Farm-to-Fork Surveillance and New Genome Sequencing Techniques to Prevent and Control Foodborne Disease Globally
Dr. Jørgen Schlundt
The National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Summary
In the future, it is likely that all clinical microbiological labo...
Moving from Hazard-based to Risk-based Microbial Food Safety Systems to Promote Public Health and Foster Fair Trade Practices
Dr. Robert Buchanan
Center for Food Safety and Security Systems, College of Agricultural and Natural Resources, University of Maryland, United States
Summary
Food...
Preventing the Untreatable: Why Drug-resistant Tuberculosis Must Be Prevented
Dr. Timothy Rodwell
Division of Global Public Health, University of San Diego School of Medicine; Refugee Health Assessment Program; and Utopia Scientific, United States
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Vaccines: Very Successful, Strangely Controversial
Dr. David Markovitz
Division of Infectious Diseases, and programs in Cellular and Molecular Biology, Cancer Biology, and Immunology, University of Michigan, United States...
Technological Safeguards for the U.S. Food Supply: Moral and Ethical Dilemmas
H. Morgan Scott, D.V.M., Ph.D.
Professor of Veterinary Pathobiology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, U.S.
Safeguarding the American food supply through actions that improve food safety, security, and defense (FSSD) appears — at first glance — to be an ...
Bugs and Bucks: Infectious Disease Persistence is a Matter of Economics
Dr. David Fisman
Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, and School of Medicine, University of Toronto, Canada
S...
Managing the Risks From New and Emerging Infectious Disease: the ‘One Health’ Paradigm
Prof. Martyn Jeggo
The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research’s Animal Health Laboratory and Deakin University, Australia
Summary
The global risk from n...
Policies to Proactively Address the Threat of Food Fraud
Karen Everstine, Ph.D.
Research Associate, National Center for Food Protection and Defense University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S.
Food fraud presents a threat to the health of American consumers. Food fraud is the intentional misrepresentation of food products or ingredients for ...
Risk Perception: A Challenge to the Development of Risk-based Food Safety Policy
Robert L. Buchanan, Ph.D.
Director and Professor, Center for Food Safety and Security Systems, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Universi...
The past two decades has seen increased progress in our striving to develop food safety policies that are science-based and risk-based. However, reach...
Innovation, Policy, and Public Interactions in the Management of Infectious Diseases
Joyce Tait, C.B.E., F.R.S.E., D. Univ. (Open), Ph.D., B.Sc
Professor and Scientific Advisor, Innogen Centre, University of Edinburgh
Summary
This paper focuses on preparedness planning for an influenza p...