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Climate Change and Food Safety

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Worldwide, climate change is already affecting the biology and ecology of some organisms because of changing patterns in crop production and livestock intensification, as well as altering the transport pathways of chemical contaminants. Consequently, climate change is expected to aggravate feed and food safety problems during all phases of food production and supply. Temperature increases and changes in rainfall patterns will have an impact on the persistence and patterns of occurrence of bacteria, viruses, parasites, fungi, and harmful algae and the patterns of their corresponding foodborne diseases and the risk of toxic contamination. Chemical residues of pesticides and veterinary medicines in plant and animal products will be affected by changes in pest pressure. The food risks of heavy metals and persistent organic pollutants (i.e., dioxins, polychlorinated biphenyls) could rise following changes in soils and long-range atmospheric transport, though quantitative estimates are scarce. This chapter summarizes data on the effect of climate change on biological and chemical food safety hazards, as well as it discusses the need for scientific research and development of improved tools, techniques, and practices to adapt the current risk management systems.

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Acknowledgments

This book chapter was supported by the Spanish MINECO/FEDER (project number AGL2011-26808 and AGL2014-57069-R), the Government of Aragón/European Social Fund (project number DGA Grupo A01), and the POCTEFA project EFA 292/13 MYCOPREV.

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  1. Department of Animal Production and Food Science, Veterinary Faculty, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain

    M. Herrera & Agustin Ariño

  2. Scientific Technological Park Foundation Aula Dei, 50059, Zaragoza, Spain

    R. Anadón

  3. Food Safety Research Centre (FOSREC), Faculty of Food Science and Technology, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia

    Shahzad Zafar Iqbal

  4. Department of Applied Chemistry and Biochemistry, Government College University Faisalabad, Faisalabad, Pakistan

    Shahzad Zafar Iqbal

  5. Université de Toulouse III, École Nationale Vétérinaire de Toulouse, INP, UMR 1331 Toxalim, 31076, Toulouse 3, France

    J. D. Bailly

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Herrera, M., Anadón, R., Iqbal, S.Z., Bailly, J.D., Ariño, A. (2016). Climate Change and Food Safety. In: Selamat, J., Iqbal, S. (eds) Food Safety. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39253-0_8

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