Climate change: what it means for food safety
Science on the Menu: A Food Safety Podcast by EFSA
European Food Safety Authority
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🗓️ 15 May 2023
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Most of us will be familiar with the impact climate change has on the environment – biodiversity loss, rising sea levels, higher temperatures and much more. But it also has direct and indirect effects on the safety of our food and this is something that EFSA has to take into account when assessing risks to human, animal and plant health. Join us as we talk to one of our experts, Angelo Maggiore, about how climate change can act as a driver of emerging risks in the area of food and feed safety.
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| 0:00.0 | Science on the Menu, a podcast by the European Food Safety Authority. |
| 0:19.6 | Hello everyone and welcome back to Science on the Menu, a podcast produced by EFSA, the European Food Safety Authority. |
| 0:27.2 | This is Barbara Gizoni, team leader of the digital publishing team in EFSA. |
| 0:31.6 | And today I'm joined for a very important discussion by our climate change expert, Angelo Maggiore, scientists in the |
| 0:39.2 | Knowledge and Innovation Unit in EFSA. Hi, Angelo. How are you? Good morning, everybody. I'm |
| 0:45.0 | very well. Thank you very much, Barbara, for inviting me today. Thank you for joining us. |
| 0:49.8 | So today we're going to talk about climate change. And I believe that some of our world |
| 0:55.0 | listeners may already be wondering why we're doing so, because they probably know that |
| 0:59.5 | EFSA's main remit is about food safety. So before we even start going into a more detail |
| 1:05.5 | conversation, could you please help us first understand what is the link between EFSA and climate change? |
| 1:11.6 | How does EFSA connect to this very current topic? |
| 1:16.6 | The reason why we are dealing with it is that most of the studies related to climate change and the food system |
| 1:22.6 | are describing the effect of climate change on food security issues. |
| 1:28.3 | So basically the food production for a growing human population. |
| 1:34.3 | Very few studies are dealing with effect on food and feed safety, but not only these also |
| 1:41.3 | plant, animal health and nutritional quality. |
| 1:45.9 | And that's why we are involved. |
| 1:46.8 | Thank you. |
| 1:47.2 | Okay. |
| 1:53.0 | So now we have clarified a little bit the link between EFSA, food safety and climate change on a more theoretical level. |
| 1:55.6 | As you explained to us, there are different connections. |
| 1:58.8 | So now I would be curious to, for example, I have a few |
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