Sandy Thomas presents the food safety policy brief
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Presentation of the global Panel's policy brief ‘Assuring Safe Food Systems: Policy Options for a Healthier Food Supply’. The brief reviews food safety issues that are critical to poor and vulnerable populations in low- and middle-income countries, with a particular focus on their impact on healthy diets.
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Sandy Thomas presents the food safety policy brief
- 1. Food safety and aflatoxins in Africa Prof. Sandy Thomas, Director, Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition Global Panel and PACA Roundtable – Accra – 12 April 2016
- 2. The Global Panel: who we are
- 3. PanelMembers
- 5. The benefits of improving nutrition
- 6. 2016 Work programme • African Leaders for Nutrition 24 May: Lusaka, Zambia • Foresight Report Summer: Rome, Italy • Regional Workshop 5-6 September: Nairobi, Kenya • SAPLING Initiative 6-7 October: New Delhi, India • Five briefs Production and global dissemination throughout 2016 Image: DFAT
- 7. New policy brief on food safety Assuring Safe Food Systems: Policy Options for a Healthier Food Supply
- 8. Food safety burden Every year, an estimated: - 1 in 10 people fall ill after eating contaminated food, - 420,000 die, resulting in the loss of 33 million ‘healthy life years’ Children under 5 years are most affected; accounting for almost 33% of all food contamination deaths, although they represent only 9% of the world’s population.
- 9. Global burden of foodborne disease (DALYs)
- 10. Why food safety matters to nutrition Unsafe food can: •affect nutrition directly resulting in impaired growth and development •indirectly, affecting the availability of and people’s access to safe, nutritious food
- 11. Food safety threats in Africa Food safety is a threat to: •Public health •Agriculture •Food systems It affects: •Trade •Rural incomes & purchasing power •Worker productivity •Consumer confidence
- 12. • Integrated policy actions backed up by regulation, surveillance. • Training of those involved in the food environment. How to assure a healthier food supply?
- 13. The Global Panel recommends that policymakers consider actions across the food system: •In the food production domain •In the markets & trade domain •In the consumer domain
- 14. Key Policy Recommendations: •Integrate food safety policymaking with agriculture and nutrition; and establish context appropriate national regulatory frameworks; •Strengthen national research on foodborne diseases and the effects on malnutrition; •Strengthen food safety information systems; •Promote enhanced awareness and application of practices to prevent and mitigate agricultural hazards; •Support inclusive and progressive formalisation of markets, including investment in infrastructure and storage facilities; •Support enhanced consumer awareness of the importance of food safety in ensuring access to high quality diets. Get your copy: glopan.org/food-safety
- 15. Impact of aflatoxins 30% of liver cancer cases in Africa Affect up to 25% of the world’s food crops Africa loses up to US$ 670 million annually
- 16. African Union established a flagship program focusing on aflatoxins PACA’s mission: - To support agricultural development, safeguard consumer health and facilitate trade by - Catalyzing, coordinating and increasing effective aflatoxin control along agricultural value chains in Africa
- 17. Key messages • Food safety, nutrition, food security and public health are linked. • Moral economic and social imperatives. • Partnership, multi-sectoral and integrated approach. • Coherent strategies, evidence based plans and accountability.
- 18. On Twitter? Tweet about this! @Glo_PAN @AUC_CAADP
Editor's Notes
- Created in 2013 as part of the London Nutrition for Growth Initiative, funded by Gates and DFID The Panel has organised and implemented an approach designed to achieve the following objectives: Generate and stimulate a stronger evidence-base for how changes in agriculture and food systems can improve nutrition. Create and promote a new understanding of the role and future potential of agriculture and food systems in improving nutrition. Catalyse collaboration in agriculture and food systems that will improve diets and nutrition outcomes for all.
- Deficiencies of micronutrients, including vitamins such as Vitamin A and minerals such as iron, iodine and zinc, are a major global health problem affecting an estimated 2 billion people globally. Micronutrients are vital to growth and development, disease prevention and wellbeing. At least half of children worldwide age 6-5 years suffer from one or more micronutrient deficiency. Non communicable diseases, also known as chronic diseases, include cancers, cardiovascular diseases and diabetes. Sources: Ref. on Stunting: United Nations Children’s Fund, World Health Organization, The World Bank. UNICEF-WHO-World Bank Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates. New York, Geneva, and Washington D.C.: UNICEF, WHO, World Bank; 2012. Ref. on Micronutrient Def.: Micronutrient Initiative, Flour Fortification Initiative, GAIN, USAID, The World Bank, UNICEF, Investing in the future: a united call to action on vitamin and mineral deficiencies. Ottowa, ON, Canada: Micronutrient Initiative and Canadian International Development Agency; 2009. Ref. on NCD’s: WHO, 2011. Global Status Report on Noncommunicable Diseases 2010. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2011
- First slide on the earning potential is based on data from developing countries References : (Top Left) S. Grantham-McGregoret al. Development potential in the first 5 years for children in developing countries. The Lancet 2007; 369: 60-70. (Bottom Left) S. Horton & R.H. Steckel. Global economic losses attributable to malnutrition 1900–2000 and projections to 2050. In: B. Lomborg (ed.). The Economics of Human Challenges. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; In Press. (Right) D. Bloom et al. The Global Economic Burden of Non-communicable Diseases. Geneva: World Economic Forum; 2011.
- Attach info on African Leaders for nutrition and Sapling 5 briefs titles: - Assuring Safe Food Systems: Policy Options for a Healthier Food Supply - Nutrition for Growth- Rio 2016: Recommended Commitments to Improve Nutrition through Agriculture and Food Systems - The cost of inadequate diets and malnutrition - Improving the food environment (full title to be developed) Consumer behaviour (full title to be developed) African leaders for Nutrition is a new initiative from the Global Panel in partnership with the Gates Foundation and the African Development Bank, past and current president and other leaders will champion the case for better nutrition across Africa. SAPLING is the South Asian leadership initiative which panel member Srinath Reddy is leading This is a similar in aims to African Leaders for Nutrition, but will involve a range of senior stakeholders rather than national leaders.
- Data source: WHO Estimates of the global burden of foodborne diseases online tool12.The WHO classifications for the regions were based on child and adult mortality. For the purpose of this policy brief, regions are categorised as (i) high-income countries and (ii) low- and middle-income countries according to the World Bank (WB) classifications. The High Income Countries group in Figure 1 include high income countries plus Cuba (WB classification is middle-income).
- A comprehensive and integrated set of policy actions backed up by regulation, surveillance, and training of individuals and organisations involved in all segments of the food environment are required to assure the safety of transforming food systems and to support a healthier food supply. This Policy Brief has outlined the importance of food safety policy measures across the food system, with a particular focus on their integration with improved nutrition.
- Aflatoxins are invisible poisons that impact three sectors Contaminate diverse food and feed produce in Africa and the tropics, pre- and post-harvest Persistent and difficult to destroy or remove through normal food processing Limit access to market: Africa loses up to US$ 670 million annually Contribute to about 30% of liver cancer cases in Africa; associated with childhood stunting, immune-suppression Affect up to 25% of the world’s food crops chronically
- African Union stepped up and established a flagship program focusing on aflatoxins. PACA is on a mission to: support agricultural development, safeguard consumer health and facilitate trade by catalyzing, coordinating and increasing effective aflatoxin control along agricultural value chains in Africa
- Inseparable links exist between food safety, nutrition and food security, and public health There is a moral reason and economic and social imperative to address developmental challenges due to aflatoxin in Africa Partnership, multi-sectoral and integrated approach is key to deal with the complex problem of aflatoxin contamination Phased approach, coherent strategies and evidence based plans, and accountability are vital for greater impact