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food tracing study

[conspiTheory]

US want tracability and more tests, so what, if you read this study, then good luck. sure your burger might be traced back faster than the sprout, which took 2 weeks, but any other that include more than 2 ingredients will be impossible to trace. And all that with no $ from any gvt. pathetic.

https://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0037810

With the world’s population now in excess of 7 billion, it is vital to ensure the chemical and microbiological safety of our food, while maintaining the sustainability of its production, distribution and trade. Using UN databases, here we show that the international agro-food trade network (IFTN), with nodes and edges representing countries and import-export fluxes, respectively, has evolved into a highly heterogeneous, complex supply-chain network. Seven countries form the core of the IFTN, with high values of betweenness centrality and each trading with over 77% of all the countries in the world. Graph theoretical analysis and a dynamic food flux model show that the IFTN provides a vehicle suitable for the fast distribution of potential contaminants but unsuitable for tracing their origin. In particular, we show that high values of node betweenness and vulnerability correlate well with recorded large food poisoning outbreaks.

By 2030, food demand is expected to increase by 50% [1] and thus the global food supply is playing an increasingly critical role in the economical and political landscape [2], [3]. The latest deadly food poisoning outbreaks in 2011 (Escherichia coli in Germany [4], Listeria monocytogenes in the US [5]) and their economic, political and social effects clearly illustrated the importance of prompt tracing of the origin of specific food ingredients. This task is placing a huge pressure on regulation and surveillance.

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The IFTN is based on reported export, involving N = 207 countries (nodes) drawn as disks and M = 10645 trade fluxes (those worth more than 1 million US$), drawn as directed edges/links. The top 44 countries with the largest total trade activity (import+export) and the top 300 largest food-trade fluxes were colored according to their betweenness values