Worldwide food recall patterns over an eleven month period: a country perspective.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Following the World Health Organization Forum in November 2007, the Beijing Declaration recognized the importance of food safety along with the rights of all individuals to a safe and adequate diet. The aim of this study is to retrospectively analyze the patterns in food alert and recall by countries to identify the principal hazard generators and gatekeepers of food safety in the eleven months leading up to the Declaration.

Methods

The food recall data set was collected by the Laboratory of the Government Chemist (LGC, UK) over the period from January to November 2007. Statistics were computed with the focus reporting patterns by the 117 countries. The complexity of the recorded interrelations was depicted as a network constructed from structural properties conta

SUBMITTER: Nepusz T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2556336 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature