Medicine & Health

WHO Estimates of the Global Burden of Foodborne Diseases

Published June 11, 2019 Partnered Collections, Special Issues

Illness and death from diseases caused by contaminated food are a constant threat to public health and a significant impediment to socio-economic development worldwide. To measure the global and regional burden of foodborne disease the World Health Organization (WHO) established the Foodborne Disease Burden Epidemiology Reference Group (FERG), which here reports their first estimates of the incidence, mortality, and disease burden caused by 31 foodborne hazards. The outcomes of the Collection can contribute to improvements in food safety throughout the food chain by incorporating these estimates into policy development at national and international levels.

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Introducing the Global Burden of Foodborne Diseases Collection
Collection Overview
Global Burden of Foodborne Diseases
WHO Report
Global Burden of Foodborne Diseases - Supplementary Articles

Introducing the Global Burden of Foodborne Diseases Collection

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PLOS Collections Blog Foreword to the WHO Estimates of the Global Burden of Foodborne Diseases
December 3, 2015 Kazuaki Miyagishima
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PLOS Collections Blog Reflections on the WHO Initiative to Estimate the Global Burden of Foodborne Diseases
December 3, 2015 Arie Havelaar, Rob Lake

Collection Overview

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10.1371/journal.pmed.1001923

PLOS Medicine World Health Organization Global Estimates and Regional Comparisons of the Burden of Foodborne Disease in 2010
December 3, 2015 Arie H. Havelaar, Martyn D. Kirk, Paul R. Torgerson, Herman J. Gibb, Tine Hald, Robin J. Lake, Nicolas Praet, David C. Bellinger, Nilanthi R. de Silva, Neyla Gargouri, Niko Speybroeck, Amy Cawthorne, Colin Mathers, Claudia Stein, Frederick J. Angulo, Brecht Devleesschauwer, on behalf of World Health Organization Foodborne Disease Burden Epidemiology Reference Group

Global Burden of Foodborne Diseases

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PLOS ONE World Health Organization Estimates of the Relative Contributions of Food to the Burden of Disease Due to Selected Foodborne Hazards: A Structured Expert Elicitation
January 19, 2016 Tine Hald, Willy Aspinall, Brecht Devleesschauwer, Roger Cooke, Tim Corrigan, Arie H. Havelaar, Herman J. Gibb, Paul R. Torgerson, Martyn D. Kirk, Fred J. Angulo, Robin J. Lake, Niko Speybroeck, Sandra Hoffmann
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PLOS ONE Attribution of global foodborne disease to specific foods: Findings from a World Health Organization structured expert elicitation
September 14, 2017 Sandra Hoffmann, Brecht Devleesschauwer, Willy Aspinall, Roger Cooke, Tim Corrigan, Arie Havelaar, Frederick Angulo, Herman Gibb, Martyn Kirk, Robin Lake, Niko Speybroeck, Paul Torgerson, Tine Hald
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10.1371/journal.pmed.1001921

PLOS Medicine World Health Organization Estimates of the Global and Regional Disease Burden of 22 Foodborne Bacterial, Protozoal, and Viral Diseases, 2010: A Data Synthesis
December 3, 2015 Martyn D. Kirk, Sara M. Pires, Robert E. Black, Marisa Caipo, John A. Crump, Brecht Devleesschauwer, Dörte Döpfer, Aamir Fazil, Christa L. Fischer-Walker, Tine Hald, Aron J. Hall, Karen H. Keddy, Robin J. Lake, Claudio F. Lanata, Paul R. Torgerson, Arie H. Havelaar, Frederick J. Angulo
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PLOS ONE Methodological Framework for World Health Organization Estimates of the Global Burden of Foodborne Disease
December 3, 2015 Brecht Devleesschauwer, Juanita A. Haagsma, Frederick J. Angulo, David C. Bellinger, Dana Cole, Dörte Döpfer, Aamir Fazil, Eric M. Fèvre, Herman J. Gibb, Tine Hald, Martyn D. Kirk, Robin J. Lake, Charline Maertens de Noordhout, Colin D. Mathers, Scott A. McDonald, Sara M. Pires, Niko Speybroeck, M. Kate Thomas, Paul R. Torgerson, Felicia Wu, Arie H. Havelaar, Nicolas Praet
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10.1371/journal.pmed.1001920

PLOS Medicine World Health Organization Estimates of the Global and Regional Disease Burden of 11 Foodborne Parasitic Diseases, 2010: A Data Synthesis
December 3, 2015 Paul R. Torgerson, Brecht Devleesschauwer, Nicolas Praet, Niko Speybroeck, Arve Lee Willingham, Fumiko Kasuga, Mohammad B. Rokni, Xiao-Nong Zhou, Eric M. Fèvre, Banchob Sripa, Neyla Gargouri, Thomas Fürst, Christine M. Budke, Hélène Carabin, Martyn D. Kirk, Frederick J. Angulo, Arie Havelaar, Nilanthi de Silva
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F1000 Research World Health Organization estimates of the global and regional disease burden of four foodborne chemical toxins, 2010: a data synthesis
December 3, 2015 Herman Gibb, Brecht Devleesschauwer, P. Michael Bolger, Felicia Wu, Janine Ezendam, Julie Cliff, Marco Zeilmaker, Philippe Verger, John Pitt, Janis Baines, Gabriel Adegoke, Reza Afshari, Yan Liu, Bas Bokkers, Henk van Loveren, Marcel Mengelers, Esther Brandon, Arie H. Havelaar, David Bellinger
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PLOS ONE National Studies as a Component of the World Health Organization Initiative to Estimate the Global and Regional Burden of Foodborne Disease
December 3, 2015 Robin J. Lake, Brecht Devleesschauwer, George Nasinyama, Arie H. Havelaar, Tanja Kuchenmüller, Juanita A. Haagsma, Helen H. Jensen, Nasreen Jessani, Charline Maertens de Noordhout, Frederick J. Angulo, John E. Ehiri, Lindita Molla, Friday Agaba, Suchunya Aungkulanon, Yuko Kumagai, Niko Speybroeck

WHO Report

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World Health Organization WHO Estimates of the Global Burden of Foodborne Diseases
December 3, 2015 Foodborne Disease Burden Epidemiology Reference Group

Global Burden of Foodborne Diseases - Supplementary Articles

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10.1371/journal.pone.0216545

PLOS ONE Global disease burden of pathogens in animal source foods, 2010
June 6, 2019 Min Li, Arie H. Havelaar, Sandra Hoffmann, Tine Hald, Martyn D. Kirk, Paul R. Torgerson, Brecht Devleesschauwer
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Environmental Research (PAYWALL) Estimates of the 2015 global and regional disease burden from four foodborne metals – arsenic, cadmium, lead and methylmercury
December 25, 2018 Herman J.Gibb, Aaron Barchowsky, David Bellinger, P. Michael Bolgere, Clark Carrington, Arie H.Havelaarg, Shilpi Oberoi, Yu Zang, Keri O’ Leary, Brecht Devleesschauwer
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Science Activism, Flickr

Environmental Research (PAYWALL) Global burden of intellectual disability resulting from dietary exposure to lead, 2015
February 16, 2019 Clark Carrington, Brecht Devleesschauwer, Herman J. Gibb, P. Michael Bolger
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Science Activism, Flickr

Environmental Research (PAYWALL) Global burden of cancer and coronary heart disease resulting from dietary exposure to arsenic, 2015
January 11, 2019 Shilpi Oberoi, Brecht Devleesschauwer, Herman J. Gibb, Aaron Barchowsky
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Science Activism, Flickr

Environmental Research (PAYWALL) Global burden of intellectual disability resulting from prenatal exposure to methylmercury, 2015
December 19, 2018 David C. Bellinger, Brecht Devleesschauwer, Keri O’ Leary, Herman J.Gibb
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Science Activism, Flickr

Environmental Research (PAYWALL) Global burden of late-stage chronic kidney disease resulting from dietary exposure to cadmium, 2015
October 22, 2018 Yu Zang, Brecht Devleesschauwer, P. Michael Bolger, Emily Goodman, Herman J.Gibb
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FERG

WHO Bulletin Diarrhoeal disease in children due to contaminated food
November 25, 2016 Martyn D Kirk, Frederick J Angulo, Arie H Havelaar & Robert E Black
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CDC/Dr. Myron G. Schultz, Wikimedia Commons

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Trypanosoma cruzi: Time for International Recognition as a Foodborne Parasite
June 2, 2016 Lucy J. Robertson, Brecht Devleesschauwer, Belkisyolé Alarcón de Noya, Oscar Noya González, Paul R. Torgerson
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10.1371/journal.pone.0152040

PLOS ONE Current Measures on Radioactive Contamination in Japan: A Policy Situation Analysis
March 23, 2016 Stuart Gilmour, Shoji Miyagawa, Fumiko Kasuga, Kenji Shibuya
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10.1371/journal.pone.0149817

PLOS ONE Evaluation of a Performance-Based Expert Elicitation: WHO Global Attribution of Foodborne Diseases
March 1, 2016 W. P. Aspinall, R. M. Cooke, A. H. Havelaar, S. Hoffmann, T. Hald
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10.1371/journal.pntd.0004040

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Estimating the Burden of Febrile Illnesses
December 3, 2015 John A. Crump, Martyn D. Kirk
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10.1371/journal.pone.0142927

PLOS ONE Aetiology-Specific Estimates of the Global and Regional Incidence and Mortality of Diarrhoeal Diseases Commonly Transmitted through Food
December 3, 2015 Sara M. Pires, Christa L. Fischer-Walker, Claudio F. Lanata, Brecht Devleesschauwer, Aron J. Hall, Martyn D. Kirk, Ana S. R. Duarte, Robert E. Black, Frederick J. Angulo