SOKOINE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE PROGRESS
OF SAFE FOOD FAIR FOOD AND COW KILLER
George Msalya
Maziwa Zaidi & Steering Committee workshop 8-10
October 2014 at Giraffe Ocean View Hotel, Tanzania

FOOD SAFETY AND ZOONOSES
Research concepts:
• Infectious diseases shared between animals and humans
(zoonoses) – incl. factors for (re)emergence
• Infectious diseases related to food safety (Foodborne
zoonoses)
• Relation between access to safe and quality food and
nutritional outcomes
• Interventions along the food chain that help to address the
above
…in animal sourced foods

Two main projects in Tanzania

SAFE FOOD, FAIR FOOD (SFFF)
Sheep & goats – Ethiopia and Senegal
Pork – Uganda
Fish – Egypt
Dairy - Tanzania

Conférence internationale Africa 2013 sur l’Ecosanté

Conférence internationale Africa 2013 sur l’Ecosanté

Objectives (TZ) and Methods
• Assessment of Food Safety (FS) risks along the dairy value chain
 Rapid Integrated Assessment (RIA) for food safety and nutrition (REPORT IN PLACE)
 Microbiological Assessments of milk along the VC (farm to consumer)
 Brucella & E. coli 0157 (2013) – (2 MSc Theses / 1 Draft publication)
 Salmonella, Listeria, enterobacteriaceae, Staphylococcus (2014)
 Antimicrobial resistant microorganisms in the milk (2014)
 Systematic literature review of zoonotic hazards in dairy VC in TZ (DRAFT REPORT)
• Identifying risk mitigating interventions (“best-bets”)
 Identification (based on assessments above)
 Prioritization (objective and/or convenient…)
• Pilot “best-bets” (Randomized Control Trials) – TO START

Rapid assessment of nutrition &
food safety risks in dairy value
chains in
Report prepared by
Barbara Häsler, Kimberly Fornace, Mahmoud El Tolth
and Jonathan Rushton – Royal Veterinary College
In partnership with
D. Grace and K. Röesel – International Livestock
Research Institute
L. Kurwijila, G. Msalya, A. Sikira, P. Ruvuga, C.
Henjewele, M. Waziri, M. Zungo, N. Hozza, E. Hamis,
F. Shija, and E. Joseph, Sokoine University of
Agriculture
For the Australian Centre for International
Agricultural Research
Prepared: August 2013, Final revision: March 2014

Summary (SFFF)
Rapid
Integrated
Assessment
of FS and
nutrition
Microbiological
assessments
Systematic
literature
Review of
zoonotic
hazards
Public health implications?
What factors (e.g. farm management) are
related?
Prioritization of most
promising interventions
BEST-BETS
Pilot best-bets

What is killing my cow – COW KILLER
 Most frequent diseases
 Unknown diseases (rarely looked for)

What is killing my cow – COW KILLER
Project objectives (What we want to achieve):
• Identify most common pathogens affecting dairy
cattle herd
• Identify pathogens rarely looked for
• Identify farm management practices associated with
these diseases
• Identify interventions to address animal health issues
• Field test a Disease Diagnosis Support Tool for farmer
and extension officers

What is killing my cow – COW KILLER
Project methods (What we have done):
• Sampled SICK dairy cattle – whole blood and serum
(n>400 animals)
 Laboratory test:
 Rift Valley Fever, Brucella, Tick borne diseases, CBPP
 Q fever, Para influenza virus, Respiratory diseases
 Geo-spatial distribution of animal health pathogens
• Questionnaire to farmers (n=150) - management practices
 Risk factor analysis (when possible)
 Identification of farm activities that may link to disease
presence at the farm

What is killing my cow – COW KILLER
Blood
Farmer’s
questionnaire
Laboratory
testing
Data analysis
Pathogen
distribution
Mitigation
strategies

ACHIEVEMENTS - END 2014
What should we achieved by end 2014?
• Overview of Food safety in DAIRY VALUE CHAIN in target areas
(what are the problems, where, why, and what to do)
• Overview of animal health situation in DAIRY VALUE CHAIN in target areas
(what are the problems, where, why, and what to do)
In addition:
• IMPACT ASSESSMENT OF TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION of dairy VC actors IN
KENYA (To be conducted throughout 2014)
 LESSONS LEARNT from training and certification in dairy value chain IN INDIA
(Ram Pratim Deka)

INTEGRATING ACTIVITIES
How can our outcomes contribute to other projects
in the DAIRY VC in Tanzania?
•Share of info on food safety and animal health in
the VC
•Integrate food safety/milk quality into HUBs
systems
•Use HUBs as platform for best-bets testing?
•…..

THANK YOU!
Looking forward to fruitful collaborations…
Researchers in TZ
- L. R. Kurwijila – Coordinator ILRI/SUA
- G. M. Msalya – Administrator/Scientist
- H. Nonga – Researcher
- E. Karimuribo – Researcher

Acknowledgements
This work is financed by
CGIAR and Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and
Development, Germany (BMZ), RIA was funded by the Australian
Centre for International Agricultural Research
It is implemented in a partnership with
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)
Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA)
Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) Germany
LandeslaborBerlin-Brandenburg (LLBB) Germany
It contributes to the CGIAR Research Program on
Livestock and Fish, Agriculture for Nutrition and Health

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