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One health outlook: effects on health and food safety by climate changes

Published on May 28, 2026   40 min

A selection of talks on Microbiology

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Hello to everybody. I'm Alberto Mantovani, an expert in risk assessment at the international level with the European Food Safety Authority, European Chemical Agency, and FAO. I'm a veterinarian by degree. I'm mostly an expert in toxicological risk assessment. But during my quite long career at the Italian National Health Institute, I also deal with food safety in the overall picture, including biological hazards. One Health Outlook on food safety, but from the standpoint of an emerging aspect, climate change.
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Now, One Health, I'm refreshing what One Health is. Four international agencies have adopted a definition of One Health, and the four international agencies are WHO, FAO and agri-food, the World Organization on Animal Health, and the United Nations Environmental Program. This operational definition is from December 2021. It's pretty recent. One Health recognize that the health of humans, all animals, domestic and wild, plants and the wider environment including ecosystems which are networks in fact of different components are closely linked and interdependent. It is an integrated and unified approach and therefore it involves multiple sector disciplines and components of society. Indeed, the European concept of food safety from farm to fork, so starting from living organisms that produce food is largely One Health, and this dates from 2000, in fact. What are the keywords of One Health?

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