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Agrilinks hosts month-long focus on food safety

Posted on 9 April 2018 by Kristina Rösel • Leave a comment

Originally posted on AgHealth:
Fish market in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia (photo credit: WorldFish/Jamie Oliver). Agrilinks is an online community for food security and agricultural development practitioners. During the month of March 2018, Agrilinks shines the spotlight on the topic of food safety, with a series of feature articles and resources by food safety experts on…

A4NH / Africa / AHH / Animal Diseases / Dairying / East Africa / Food Safety / Health (human) / ILRI / Pigs / Tanzania / Uganda / zoonotic diseases

Safe Food, Fair Food project research presented at tropical veterinary medicine conference

Posted on 28 September 2016 by Tezira Lore • 2 Comments

Research from the Safe Food, Fair Food project featured during the first joint conference of the Association of Institutions for Tropical Veterinary Medicine and the Society of Tropical Veterinary Medicine held in Berlin, Germany on 4-8 September 2016. Continue reading →

A4NH / Agri-Health / AHH / Animal Diseases / Animal Health / Animal Products / Dairying / East Africa / Food Safety / Germany / Health (human) / ILRI / LIVESTOCK-FISH / Pigs / Regions / Tanzania / Uganda / zoonotic diseases

One Health to feature at international conference on tropical veterinary medicine

Posted on 11 February 2016 by Kristina Rösel • Leave a comment

Originally posted on AgHealth:
The holistic concept of ‘One World-One Health’ in disease prevention and control will be among the topics of discussion at the first joint international conference of the Association of Institutions for Tropical Veterinary Medicine (AITVM) and the Society of Tropical Veterinary Medicine (STVM) which is scheduled to place on 4-8 September…

A4NH / Agri-Health / AHH / Animal Health / East Africa / Food Safety / Germany / Health (human) / Pigs / Uganda

Ugandan project student continues work on multi-resistant Salmonella isolates at German partners’ labs

Posted on 18 October 2015 by Kristina Rösel • Leave a comment

From August to October 2015, Dickson Ndoboli, an ILRI graduate fellow in the GIZ-funded, ILRI-led Safe Food, Fair Food project, was hosted by project partners at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, to continue his research on antibiotic resistance and plasmid profile analysis of Salmonella strains from Uganda. Resistance to antiinfective drugs can develop naturally in bacteria, … Continue reading →

A4NH / Africa / Agri-Health / AHH / Animal Products / Côte d’Ivoire / Dairying / East Africa / Ethiopia / Fish / Food Safety / Gender / Goats / Kenya / Knowledge and Information / Mali / Mozambique / Southern Africa / Tanzania / West Africa / zoonotic diseases

Free e-version of book on food safety in informal markets in sub-Saharan Africa now available

Posted on 31 July 2015 by Kristina Rösel • 2 Comments

The book, Food Safety and Informal Markets: Animal Products in Sub-Saharan Africa, based on ILRI-led research, is now open access. Continue reading →

A4NH / Agri-Health / AHH / Animal Products / East Africa / Food Safety / Health (human) / ILRI / LIVESTOCK-FISH / Pigs / Uganda / zoonotic diseases

New biogas plant improves waste management in Kampala pig abattoir

Posted on 12 March 2015 by Kristina Rösel • Leave a comment

Originally posted on CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish:
Danilo Pezo of ILRI engages project staff and partners at the handover of a biogas plant at Wambizzi (photo credit: ILRI/Brian Kawuma). Wambizzi, the only pig abattoir in Uganda is located in Nalukolongo, west of Kampala city and handles up to 150 pigs a day. It…

A4NH / Agri-Health / AHH / East Africa / Food Safety / Health (human) / ILRI / LIVESTOCK-FISH / Pigs / Uganda

Biogas production takes off at Wambizzi abattoir in Kampala

Posted on 11 February 2015 by Kristina Rösel • Leave a comment

Generating biogas from organic waste could provide two important benefits addressing public health challenges: it can generate clean power (methane for cooking and electricity) as well as reduce the pathogen burden at the slaughter house premises leading to less cross-contamination and rendering slaughter waste into a product safe to use as fertilizer or even animal feeds. Continue reading →

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Agrilinks hosts month-long focus on food safety
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