title: Impacts of globalisation on foodborne parasites.
abstract: Globalisation is a manmade phenomenon encompassing the spread and movement of everything, animate and inanimate, material and intangible, around the planet. The intentions of globalisation may be worthy--but may also have unintended consequences. Pathogens may also be spread, enabling their establishment in new niches and exposing new human and animal populations to infection. The plethora of foodborne parasites that could be distributed by globalisation has only recently been acknowledged and will provide challenges for clinicians, veterinarians, diagnosticians, and everyone concerned with food safety. Globalisation may also provide the resources to overcome some of these challenges. It will facilitate sharing of methods and approaches, and establishment of systems and databases that enable control of parasites entering the global food chain.
authors.affiliation: Parasitology Laboratory, Section for Microbiology, Immunology, and Parasitology, Department of Food Safety and Infection Biology, Norwegian School of Veterinary Science, PO Box 8146 Dep, 0033 Oslo, Norway. Electronic address: lucy.robertson@nvh.no.
authors.forename: Lucy J
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Robertson
authors.affiliation: National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, Laboratory for Zoonoses and Environmental Microbiology, Antonie van Leeuwenhoeklaan 9, PO Box 1, 3720 BA Bilthoven, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Hein
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Sprong
authors.affiliation: Center for Food Safety, University of Georgia, Griffin, GA 30223 USA.
authors.forename: Ynes R
authors.initials: YR
authors.lastname: Ortega
authors.affiliation: National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, Laboratory for Zoonoses and Environmental Microbiology, Antonie van Leeuwenhoeklaan 9, PO Box 1, 3720 BA Bilthoven, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Joke W B
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: van der Giessen
authors.affiliation: United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville, MD 20705 USA.
authors.forename: Ron
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Fayer
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D020387:Food Chain; D005511:Food Handling; D016266:Food Parasitology / Q000592:standards / Q000639:trends*; D014943:Global Health; D006801:Humans; D038622:Internationality; D010272:Parasitic Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D012307:Risk Factors; D014195:Travel
keywords: epidemiology; establishment; food safety; import; surveillance; transmission