Global food network ‘vulnerable’ to fast spread of contaminants
date:Jun 09, 2012
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Too complex?

The research maps the highly complex network that is formed around a core group of seven countries, each trading with more than 77% of the world's nations.

Since any two countries in the IFTN have only two degrees of separation on the network, the IFTN is capable of spreading a foodborne contaminant very efficiently, say Baranyi and his colleagues

The system also tends to mask the contaminant's origins once the system is compromised, since so many network paths
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