Category Archives: Food Safety

Under SPS and markets, we work on sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) issues, growing market requirements for food safety and quality that constrain market access by smallholders (including appropriate development of smallholder dairy markets).

AHH / Capacity Strengthening / East and Southeast Asia / Emerging Diseases / Food Safety / ILRI / Southeast Asia / Vietnam / Zoonotic Diseases

Stepping up food safety training: Seminar for graduate students in Hanoi this week

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Training the next-generation of food scientists in food-borne risks and diseases is one of the best ways of promoting food safety and nutritional security in developing countries.

On 28 July 2016, Vietnamese and international food safety experts from the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Vietnam National University of Agriculture (VNUA), Hanoi School of Public Health (HSPH) and Center for Public Health Research (CENPHER) will share their knowledge and expertise with students of food technology at the ‘Food microbial hazards and risks’ seminar in Hanoi, Vietnam. Continue reading →

A4NH / AHH / Collaboration / Food Safety / ILRI / India / Partnerships / South Asia / Zoonotic Diseases

Tapping into potential partnerships: ILRI and Bihar Agricultural University discuss possible collaborations

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The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and Bihar Agricultural University (BAU) recently discussed possibilities of collaboration on livestock research for development in Bihar, India.

In a meeting held 8-10 October 2015, the two institutes identified areas of mutual interest such as food safety, zoonotic diseases and animal nutrition as opportunities for developing joint proposals and projects.
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Asia / Food Safety / ILRI / Southeast Asia / Value Chains / Vietnam

ILRI holds planning workshop for Australia-funded pig project in Vietnam

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Last month, the ‘Reducing disease risks and improving food safety in smallholders pig value chains in Vietnam’ or PigRisk project team and partners held a bi-annual planning meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam.

The two-day workshop (26-27 April 2015), which was hosted by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in Vietnam, discussed accomplishments of the project since the last team meeting in December 2014 and set project goals for the next two years. Continue reading →

A4NH / Agri-Health / AHH / Article / Food Safety / Southeast Asia / Vietnam

ACIAR newsletter highlights ILRI project on risk assessment for improved food safety in Vietnam

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Hmong butchers selling pig meat from the indigenous Hmong black pig, recognizable from its thick layer of fat below the skin, Bac Ha, Lao Cai Province, Vietnam (photo credit: ILRI/Jo Cadilhon). The July 2014 issue of Partners Magazine, the flagship publication of the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR), features an article on an … Continue reading →

A4NH / Agri-Health / Asia / Cambodia / Food Safety / ILRI / Laos / Pigs / Report / Southeast Asia / Thailand / Vietnam

Reviewing pig-health research in Southeast Asia

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In 2003, the Veterinary Public Health Centre for Asia Pacific (VPHCAP) was established to be a regional information centre on food safety for food of animal origin in countries of the Asia-Pacific region. Since then, the VPHCAP has provided considerable amounts of information for the region’s public health researchers. With the recent commencement of the … Continue reading →

A4NH / Agri-Health / Asia / Disease Control / Event / Food Safety / ILRI / Livestock / LIVESTOCK-FISH / Pigs / Project / Southeast Asia / Vietnam

Extending ILRI’s food safety and health risk focus on pigs in Vietnam

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Participants from the inception workshop In Vietnam, pork accounts for 75 per cent of meat consumed, with its production delivering substantial benefits to the smallholders who supply 84 per cent of the market. However, as previous ILRI research has found, pork in Vietnam contains high levels of pathogens, an issue of growing concern among policy … Continue reading →

A4NH / Agri-Health / Asia / Food Safety / ILRI / Livestock / LIVESTOCK-FISH / Markets / Pigs / Vietnam

Connecting pig smallholders from East Africa to Southeast Asia

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A stall owner watches over her pork and beef stock in a local wet market of Hanoi, Vietnam (photo credit: ILRI/Andrew Nguyen). Researchers and development actors from the pig sectors of South East Asia and East Africa gathered last week in Hanoi to discuss new developments in managing food safety and biosecurity in the informal … Continue reading →

Asia / Disease Control / Food Safety / Goats / ILRI / India / Livestock / Markets / Pigs / Small Ruminants / South Asia / Vaccines

Tata and ILRI tackle rural livestock issues in northern India

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Twenty per cent increases in pig meat demand per year. Forty per cent deficits in the supply of goat meat relative to demand. And an eighty five percent shortfall in the domestic availability of classical swine fever vaccine. These are a few examples of the challenges that the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) led ‘Enhancing … Continue reading →