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Threats to Food and Water Chain Infrastructure

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 2010

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Editors:
  1. Virginia Koukouliou

    1. Department of Environmental Radioactivity, Greek Atomic Energy Commission, Agia Paraskevi, Greece

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  2. Magdalena Ujevic

    1. Croatian National Institute of Public Health, Zagreb, Croatia

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  3. Otto Premstaller

    1. Federal Ministry of Agriculture Forestry, Environment and Water Management, Vienna, Austria

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  • A detailed review of the characteristics of biological, chemical and radioactive agents that could be for the deliberate contamination of food and water
  • Vulnerability of water supplies of irrigation, Livestock and Food processing
  • Food Chain Security

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Table of contents (11 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  3. Management

    1. Water Management in Austria and Security of Water Supply

      • Wilfried Schimon
      Pages 111-130

    2. Integral Management of Water Resources in Croatia: Step Towards Water Security and Safety for All

      • Željko Dadić, Magdalena Ujević, Ksenija Vitale
      Pages 131-140

    3. Terrorism and the Food Chain

      • Evelyne Madelaine Maillot
      Pages 141-149

    4. Water for Vienna

      • Astrid Rompolt
      Pages 151-156
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vi of a large number of people due to the enormous quantities of radioactive material that would be required to reach high levels of contamination in mass-produced or distributed supplies. Although, based on data presented at the Workshop concerning the more than 30,000 missing radioactive sources all over the word, the radioactive contamination of food or water is also a scenario that must be taken seriously into consideration. During the last two decades there have been several emerging hazards linked to animal diseases or originating in animal products for example: Avian Influenza (AI), Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), West Nile Fever, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), and Ebola virus. All these diseases or events directly or indirectly affect food security and/or food safety. Approximately 75% of all emerging diseases are zoonotic by either an association with animal populations or an evolution of the disease in a- mals making it possible to move from animal species to humans. Participants were presented the primary results of the ongoing NATO- SPS Pilot Study on “Food Chain Security”. These results focused mainly on (i) an overview of the food system; (ii) prevention, surveillance and detection systems and (iii) response system. The importance of issues such as: vuln- ability assessments, risk communication in risk analysis, risk perception, traceability, preparedness – awareness, communication, have to be cons- ered when working on food chain security.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Environmental Radioactivity, Greek Atomic Energy Commission, Agia Paraskevi, Greece

    Virginia Koukouliou

  • Croatian National Institute of Public Health, Zagreb, Croatia

    Magdalena Ujevic

  • Federal Ministry of Agriculture Forestry, Environment and Water Management, Vienna, Austria

    Otto Premstaller

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