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Slide 2: Introduction to Extrachromosomal Inheritance
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Slide 3: Mitochondrial Inheritance
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Slide 4: Chloroplast Inheritance
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Slide 5: Plasmid Inheritance
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Slide 6: Mechanisms of Extrachromosomal Inheritance
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Cytoplasmic Segregation: During cell division, organelles like mitochondria and chloroplasts are randomly distributed to daughter cells.
Heteroplasmy: Presence of more than one type of organellar genome within a cell, leading to variation in expression.
Slide 7: Examples of Extrachromosomal Inheritance
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Petite Mutants in Yeast: Result from mutations in mitochondrial DNA affecting respiration.
Slide 8: Importance of Extrachromosomal Inheritance
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Slide 9: Recent Research and Advances
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Food safety challenges in traditional pork value chains and policy engagement in Vietnam and Laos
1. Food-borne disease (FBD) is a major public health issue in low income countries of South East
Asia including Vietnam and Laos. The contamination of popular foods can occur along the food
value chain. Evidence on the burden of FBD is still limited but the risk is expected to be high due
to poor food hygiene practices, missing incentives to change them, risky consumption habits and
poor enforcement of existing legislation. We will present two case studies conducted since 2015
for Vietnam and Laos.
ISSUE
CONTACT
Fred Unger, f.unger@cigar.org , ILRI, Vietnam
1International Livestock Research Institute, Hanoi (Vietnam) and Nairobi (Kenya); 2Hanoi University of Public Health, Hanoi, Vietnam; 3Vietnam National University of Agriculture,
Hanoi, Vietnam, 4National University of Laos, Vientiane, Laos; 5French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development, Montpellier, France
F Unger1, PD Phuc2, PV Hung3, P Vannaphone4, DX Sinh2, TTT Hanh2, H Nguyen1, A Binot5, L Narnon4, D Grace1
Food safety challenges in traditional pork value chains and policy
engagement in Vietnam and Laos
LAOS: CASE STUDY ON PARASITIC FOOD-BORNE DISEASES
VIETNAM: FOOD SAFETY RISK ASSESSMENT (MICROBIOLOGICAL
AND CHEMICAL)
Food safety is a key concern of people in Vietnam. Pork, mainly produced by smallholders and sold
fresh in traditional (wet) markets, is the most popular meat and essential both for consumer
nutrition and farmer livelihoods.
Research questions: What are the risks for eating pork in Vietnam?
Study areas: Hung Yen and Nghe An province
• Interdisciplinary research teams
• Risk assessment for microbiological (Salmonella) and chemical hazards (e.g. antibiotics)
• Cost of illness study
• Farm to fork approach
• Multi-level stakeholder engagement and training
• 17% of pork consumers are at risk of Salmonella poisoning annually.
• Prevalence surveys found smallholder pork is as safe as that from the formal sector.
• The annual costs of hospitalization in Vietnam due to FBD diarrhoea amounted to USD2.5–7.6
million annually.
• Risk due to chemical hazards is low (heavy metals, grow promoters and antimicrobial residues)
• Much of the human health risk comes not from eating pork (often well-cooked), but from cross-
contamination at kitchen.
• Food safety taskforce established.
• 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 to inform the public of health risks.
• Strengthening hygiene practices along the pig value chain through training and clear guidelines
equally important than 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.
METHODOLOGY
KEY FINDINGS AND ACHIEVEMENTS
POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS
Cysticercosis (1st) and trichinellosis (7th) are among the ‘top ten' food-borne parasites globally and
endemic in many parts of Laos. Pork is the most popular meat, mainly produced by small holders
and sold in traditional (wet) markets.
Research questions: The distribution of both parasitic zoonoses in southern communities of Laos?
Study areas: Savannakhet and Champasak province
METHODOLOGY
• One Health approach and interdisciplinary research teams;
• Participatory rural appraisal;
• Household surveys with serological sampling in pigs for Trichinella;
• Multi-level stakeholder engagement;
KEY FINDINGS AND ACHIEVEMENTS
• Evidence on risk for Trichinella, 17% positive tested pigs;
• Very limited knowledge and perception on zoonotic FBD;
• Nearly 90% agree that raw dishes (pork/fish) can harm humans – in practice they still like to eat
because it is delicious.
• Inter-ministerial platform established – 6 ministries and universities:
✓ Ministry: Health; Agriculture & Forestry; Natural Resources & Environment; Education &
Sports; Information; Culture and Tourism; and Defense
✓ Government offices at the provincial level
✓ Faculty of Agriculture, National University of Laos, University of Health Sciences
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POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS
• A One Health official committee of Laos should be established to continue promoting an
integrated approach and cross-sectoral collaboration using the capital and experience gained
from this study. Its governance details should be defined by joint agreement.
• This One Health committee could facilitate and cross link efforts at ministerial and lower
administrational levels as well as seed this approach and practice in the academic curriculum
to guarantee effective long term One Health management in Laos.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The research in Vietnam known as PigRISK project is funded by the Australian Centre for
International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) while the research in Laos is funded by 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 Trust Fund.