Covid-19 pandemic in the lens of food safety and security

The recently emerged coronavirus disease (COVID-19), which has been characterised as a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO), is impacting all parts of human society including agriculture, manufacturing, and tertiary sectors involving all service provision industries. This paper aims to gi...

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Main Authors: Ma, Nyuk Ling, Wanxi, Peng, Soon, Chin Fhong, Noor Hassim, Muhamad Fairus, Misbah, Suzana, Rahmat, Zaidah, Yong, Wilson Thau Lym, Sonne, Christian
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Academic Press Inc. 2021
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Online Access:http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/90407/1/ZaidahRahmat2021_Covid19PandemicintheLensofFoodSafetyandSecurity.pdf
http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/90407/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2020.110405
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Institution: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
Language: English
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Summary:The recently emerged coronavirus disease (COVID-19), which has been characterised as a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO), is impacting all parts of human society including agriculture, manufacturing, and tertiary sectors involving all service provision industries. This paper aims to give an overview of potential host reservoirs that could cause pandemic outbreak caused by zoonotic transmission. Amongst all, continues surveillance in slaughterhouse for possible pathogens transmission is needed to prevent next pandemic outbreak. This paper also summarizes the potential threats of pandemic to agriculture and aquaculture sector that control almost the total food supply chain and market. The history lesson from the past, emerging and reemerging infectious disease including the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in 2002, Influenza A H1N1 (swine flu) in 2009, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in 2012 and the recent COVID-19 should give us some clue to improve especially the governance to be more ready for next coming pandemic.