Tatiana Koutchma, Ph.D., is a research scientist in novel food processing at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. She is on the graduate faculty at University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, a member at-large of the Nonthermal Processing Division of the Institute of Food Technologists, and Canadian Ambassador to the Global Harmonization Initiative. The author thanks Motti Coren and Dror Livne of AseptoRay for sharing data and equipment.
In the first part of this survey (“Foodborne Parasites: An Insidious Threat to Food Safety and Public Health”), we looked in depth at common pathogenic parasites behind foodborne illness outbreaks and assessed the extensive geography of their origin and prevalence. In this concluding part, we look in detail at industry and regulators’ approaches to preventive control and eradication in response to this expansive threat to the global food supply system and its consumers.
