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Presented by Fred Unger, Hung Nguyen-Viet, Sinh Dang-Xuan, Phuc Pham Duc, Pham Van Hung, Lucila Lapar, Karen Marshall, Duong Van Nhiem and Delia Grace at the Global Health Institute scientific conference, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 19 February 2016.
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Food safety assessment and challenges along small-scale pig systems in VietnamILRI
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Understanding perception and drivers to change food safety condition of pork ...ILRI
Poster by Hai Hoang Tuan Ngo, Phuc Pham-Duc, Luong Nguyen-Thanh, Sinh Dang-Xuan, Hung Nguyen-Viet, Hung Pham-Van, Nga Nguyen-Thi-Duong, Huyen Nguyen-Thi-Thu, Delia Grace and Fred Unger presented at the virtual Agriculture, Nutrition and Health (ANH) Academy Week 2021, 29 June – 1 July 2021.
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Food safety along informal pork value chains in Vietnam: Success and challeng...ILRI
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Overview of traditional food markets in Asia PacificILRI
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Risk-based approach for food safety applied to pork value chain in VietnamILRI
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One Health and food safety research in developing countriesILRI
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Slide 2: Introduction to Extrachromosomal Inheritance
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Slide 4: Chloroplast Inheritance
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Slide 5: Plasmid Inheritance
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Reflecting the multi-disciplinary approach, the project brought together expertise in smallholder pig
systems, animal health, risk analysis, socio-economics, veterinary epidemiology, and public health.
Specific elements of the research approach included:
• Risk profiling, qualitative and quantitative risk assessment for microbiological (e.g. Salmonella)
and chemical hazards (growth promoters, antibiotics, heavy metals).
• Health assessments, cost of hospitalisation and treatment due to food-borne diseases in
humans.
• Economic and value chain assessments (e.g. pig producers).
• Evaluation of adoption of good agricultural practices (GAP).
• Stakeholder engagement including policy level and ownership were enabled through an explicit
and structured communication strategy developed at the start of the project.
INTRODUCTION/BACKGROUND
KEY RESEARCH FINDINGS
KEY ACHIEVEMENTS
• Evidence developed on the burden of pork-borne disease in Vietnam.
• Various papers on the subject matters have been published in international (6) and national (16)
journals.
• Additional outputs include synthesis or discussion papers, fact sheets and research briefs.
PigRISK findings and outputs have been presented at more than 60 international and national
conferences and symposia.
• Feedback workshops in the study areas included advocacy for better management of food safety
and more effective communication to raise public awareness.
• Project researchers contributed to capacity development related to food safety for partners and
networks (national and regional). Two PhD students successfully defended their thesis. Sixteen
more MSc students and 84 undergraduate students were trained.
POLICY OUTCOMES
• Scientists contributed substantially to the report: ‘Vietnam food safety risk management:
challenges and opportunities’ led by the World Bank at the request of the government of
Vietnam, launched in 2017.
• Project researchers participated in the National Taskforce on Food Safety Risk Assessment and
the Vietnam Food Safety Working Group. Support included policy analyses, training on food
safety risk analysis and the development of risk assessment guidelines.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
PigRISK project is funded by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR)
and co-funded through CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH).
ILRI thanks all donors and organizations which globally support its work through their contributions
to the CGIAR system.
• Salmonella—a bacterial pathogen which pigs
host—is one of the most common causes of
food-borne illness. We found Salmonella in 44%
of pork sold at the markets in the study.
• For the first time, a quantitative microbial risk
assessment (QMRA) model estimated the health
impacts of food-borne disease in Vietnam. It
indicated that 17% of pork consumers are at risk
of Salmonella poisoning every year.
• Prevalence surveys found smallholder pork is as
safe as that from the formal sector.
• Risk due to chemical hazards is low (heavy
metals, grow promoters and antimicrobial
residues) – overwhelming majority of meat
samples negative tested.
• Other research found that much of the human
health risk comes not from eating pork (which is
often well-cooked and relatively safe), but from
cross-contamination at household level.
• The annual costs of hospitalization in Vietnam
due to food-borne diarrhoea amounted to
USD2.5–7.6 million annually.
• Associated studies on the gendered adoption of
good agricultural practices (GAP) demonstrated
the long-term impact of participatory extension
initiatives, and identified ways of increasing
adoption and effectiveness of national GAP
initiatives. Farmers found some GAP guidelines
unreasonable to achieve or do not follow as
concrete benefits are not clear.
1 International Livestock Research Institute, ILRI Vietnam and Kenya, 2 Vietnam National University of Agriculture, Vietnam, 3 Hanoi University of
Public Health, Vietnam
F Unger1, H Nguyen1, PV Hung2, PD Phuc3, SD Xuan3, NTD Nga2, LM Lapar1, PH Ngan2, D Grace1
Improving food safety along the pork value chain in Vietnam - PigRISK
POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS
• Biological contamination is the main cause of health risks, while chemical-associated hazards are
less important. Enhancing risk communications is critical to improving the ways that related
agencies inform the public of health risks.
• Strengthening hygiene practices along the pig value chain through the provision of training and
clear guidelines plays an equally important role to infrastructure investment. Attention should be
given to behavioral change to improve hygienic practices and provision of suitable incentives.
• Interventions also need to target consumers to manage the risk of cross-contamination at
household level when handling pork.
• High disease burden (17%) due to the consumption of salmonella contaminated pork requires
better reporting mechanisms and surveillance systems for food-borne diseases at all levels.
CONTACT
Photo credit: Photo on the right (ILRI/Chi Nguyen), photo on the left (ILRI/Chi Nguyen, Hung Nguyen
and Stevie Mann).
Fred Unger, f.unger@cigar.org , ILRI, Vietnam
RESEARCH APPROACH