Into the Jungle of Biological Agents of Foodborne Diseases: Time to Put Some Order for the French Risk Manager

Frédérique Audiat-Perrin, Laurent Guillier, Jean-Christophe Augustin, Gilles Bornert, Michel Federighi (), Michel Gautier (), Nathalie Jourdan-da Silva, Régis Pouillot, Myriam Merad (), Moez Sanaa and Pauline Kooh
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Frédérique Audiat-Perrin: DER - Direction de l'Evaluation des Risques - ANSES - Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l'alimentation, de l'environnement et du travail
Laurent Guillier: DER - Direction de l'Evaluation des Risques - ANSES - Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l'alimentation, de l'environnement et du travail
Jean-Christophe Augustin: Académie d'Agriculture de France
Gilles Bornert: Service de Santé des Armées
Michel Federighi: ENVA - École nationale vétérinaire d'Alfort, SECALIM - SECurité des ALIments et Microbiologie - ONIRIS - École nationale vétérinaire, agroalimentaire et de l'alimentation Nantes-Atlantique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement
Michel Gautier: STLO - Science et Technologie du Lait et de l'Oeuf - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement - Institut Agro Rennes Angers - Institut Agro - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement, Institut Agro Rennes Angers - Institut Agro - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Nathalie Jourdan-da Silva: DSET - Direction santé environnement travail - Santé Publique France - Santé publique France - French National Public Health Agency [Saint-Maurice, France]
Régis Pouillot: FDA - U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Myriam Merad: LAMSADE - Laboratoire d'analyse et modélisation de systèmes pour l'aide à la décision - Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Moez Sanaa: DER - Direction de l'Evaluation des Risques - ANSES - Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l'alimentation, de l'environnement et du travail
Pauline Kooh: DER - Direction de l'Evaluation des Risques - ANSES - Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l'alimentation, de l'environnement et du travail

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Abstract: Consumers can be exposed to many foodborne biological hazards that cause diseases with varying outcomes and incidence and, therefore, represent different levels of public health burden. To help the French risk managers to rank these hazards and to prioritize food safety actions, we have developed a three-step approach. The first step was to develop a list of foodborne hazards of health concern in mainland France. From an initial list of 335 human pathogenic biological agents, the final list of "retained hazards" consists of 24 hazards, including 12 bacteria (including bacterial toxins and metabolites), 3 viruses and 9 parasites. The second step was to collect data to estimate the disease burden (incidence, Disability Adjusted Life Years) associated with these hazards through food during two time periods: 2008-2013 and 2014-2019. The ranks of the different hazards changed slightly according to the considered period. The third step was the ranking of hazards according to a multicriteria decision support model using the ELECTRE III method. Three ranking criteria were used, where two reflect the severity of the effects (Years of life lost and Years lost due to disability) and one reflects the likelihood (incidence) of the disease. The multicriteria decision analysis approach takes into account the preferences of the risk managers through different sets of weights and the uncertainties associated with the data. The method and the data collected allowed to estimate the health burden of foodborne biological hazards in mainland France and to define a prioritization list for the health authorities.

Keywords: biological hazards; food; foodborne diseases; risk ranking; multicriteria decision analysis; burden; biological hazards food foodborne diseases risk ranking multicriteria decision analysis burden (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024-09-01
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Published in Foodborne Pathogens and Disease, 2024, 21, pp.536 - 545. ⟨10.1089/fpd.2023.0105⟩

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DOI: 10.1089/fpd.2023.0105

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