date:Jun 09, 2012
As the world's population climbs past 7 billion, and with demand for food to increase by 50% by 2030, the sustainable production and distribution of food must be balanced against the need to ensure its chemical and microbiological safety, warn researchers in PLoS ONE.
The study a rigorous analysis of the international food-trade network (IFTN) reveals that the network is vulnerable to the fast spread of contaminants, and reports on the correlation between known food poisoning outbreaks and th