attention and investments on building resilience for food and nutrition security. This paper investigates whether shocks have … of shocks: conflicts, natural disasters, climate change, food price volatility, and health crises related to food safety …

CONTENTS: Overview / Laurian J. Unnevehr; Food Safety as a Public Health Issue for Developing Countries / Fritz K …. Käferstein; Mycotoxin Food Safety Risk in Developing Countries / Ramesh V. Bhat and Siruguri Vasanthi; Trends in Food Safety … Standards and Regulation: Implications for Developing Countries / Julie A. Caswell; Food Safety Issues in International Trade …

Health Canada received reports of more than 1,465 cases of food-borne illness from Cyclospora, a protozoan parasite. Although … study reviews the efforts to resolve this food safety problem. It is a cautionary tale about the serious impact a food …

health... The economic consequences of the presence of mycotoxins in food, feed, and agricultural crops can be severe. In … fact, mycotoxins jeopardize the safety and availability of the food supply in many countries... Both the public and private …

"Food safety issues have attracted international attention because they play an increasingly important role in … determining whether developing countries have access to export markets.At the same time, food suppliers in developing countries … face the challenge of improving food safety for their growing urban middle classes, and the large burden of disease that …

"While not trade measures per se, food safety regulations and standards can impede trade and significantly affect the … growing use of these measures globally in response to the rapid increase in scientific and technical understanding of food …

including food security, and the context for regulations on, among other things, food safety and the sound use of pesticides …

imported food products from countries around the world." from Text …"Food safety is affected by the decisions of producers, processors, distributors, food service operators, and consumers …, as well as by government regulations. In developed countries, the demand for higher levels of food safety has led to the …