This book is based on EU-funded project PLANTFOODSEC, covering intentional and unintentional threats to plant biosecurity and to food safety areas.
Biosecurity is a strategic and integrated approach for analysing and managing relevant risks to human, animal and plant life and health, and associated risks to the environment. Interest in biosecurity has risen considerably over the last decade in parallel with the increasing trade in food and plant and animal products; higher levels of international travel; new outbreaks of transboundary diseases.
Although most diseases outbreaks have natural causes or are the result of inadvertent introductions of pathogens through human activities, the risk of a deliberate introduction of a high consequence plant pathogen cannot be excluded. Vigilance is required to identify, prevent and manage new and emerging issues that could impact on production capacity, plant biosecurity or food safety and food chain resilience.
Prof. Maria Lodovica Gullino Prof. James Peter StackProf. Jacqueline FletcherProf. John Mumford
1.Foreword.- 2. Preface.- 3.Considering vulnerabilities, threats and gaps in plant and food biosecurity.- 4.Characterization of the threat resulting from plant pathogen use as anti-crop bioweapons: an EU perspective on agroterrorism.- 5. Vulnerabilities, Threats and Gaps in Food Biosecurity.- 6. Recent Outbreaks of Human Pathogens on Plants (HPOPs) on Fresh Produce Lessons Learned from the Practice.- 7. Regulatory framework for biosecurity.- 8. A risk management framework for plant biosecurity.- 9. Integrating crop bioterrorism hazards into pest risk assessment tools.- 10. Detection of mycotoxins in food: Applications of rapid and reliable tools in a biosecurity context.- 11.Containment of mycotoxins in the food chain by using decontamination and detoxification techniques.- 12. Decision tool for assessing the likelihood of an intentional foodborne illness outbreak.- 13.Diagnostic tools for plant biosecurity.- 14. The European Union Plant Diagnostic Information System (EUPDIS): A platform for collaborative diagnostics and a tool for early detection of plant pathogens.- 15.Containment and eradication of Invasive Pathogens.- 16. Applications and Assessment of Microbial Forensics in a Field Outbreak of Salmon Blotch of Onion in Israel.- 17. The fragmentation of plant and food biosecurity research networks: A scientometric analysis.- 18. Developing an International Communications Network: The PlantFoodSec model.- 19. Training and Knowledge Transfer to Support Strong, Comprehensive National and International Plant Biosecurity Preparedness.- 20. Making the most of international opportunities and experiences for researchers' training within a large, multinational EU project: The students perspective.- 21. The need for international perspectives to solve global biosecurity challenges.
