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Meat safety in northern Tanzania : inspectors' and slaughter workers' risk perceptions and management
| العنوان: | Meat safety in northern Tanzania : inspectors' and slaughter workers' risk perceptions and management |
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| المؤلفون: | Waldman, Linda, Hrynick, Tabitha, Benschop, Jackie, Cleaveland, Sarah, Crump, John, Davis, Margaret, Mariki, Boniface, Mmbaga, Blandina, Mtui-Malamsha, Niwael, Prinsen, Gerard, Sharp, Jo, Swai, Emmanuel, Thomas, Kate, Zadoks, Ruth |
| المساهمون: | University of St Andrews. School of Geography & Sustainable Development, University of St Andrews. Geographies of Sustainability, Society, Inequalities and Possibilities |
| سنة النشر: | 2020 |
| المجموعة: | University of St Andrews: Digital Research Repository |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Meat safety, Risk perception, Tanzania, Slaughter, Foodborne disease, Salmonella, Campylobacter, SF Animal culture, HD28 Management. Industrial Management, RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine, NDAS, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, SF, HD28, RA0421 |
| الوصف: | This research was funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, the Department for International Development, the Economic and Social Research Council, the Medical Research Council, the Natural Environment Research Council, and the Defense Science and Technology Laboratory, under the UK Zoonoses and Emerging Livestock Systems Initiative (BB/L017679/1 and BB/L018926/1). ; Through a social scientific lens, this paper considers the risk perceptions and “risk-based decision-making” of two key groups in a northern Tanzanian context: (1) frontline government meat inspectors and health officers charged with ensuring that red meat sold commercially is safe for people to consume, and (2) the workers who slaughter and process cattle and red meat prior to its sale in rural butcheries. In contrast to techno-scientific understandings of disease risk and “rational” approaches to its management, this paper foregrounds the role of social, economic and institutional context in shaping the perceptions and practices around meat safety of these actors whose daily, close proximity to meat means they play a significant role in mitigating potential meat-borne disease. We show how limited resources, and a combination of scientific and local knowledge and norms result in “situated expertise” and particular forms of risk perception and practice which both enhance and compromise meat safety in different ways. Actors' shared concerns with what is visible, ensures that visibly unsafe or abnormal meat is excluded from sale, and that infrastructure and meat is kept “clean” and free of certain visible contaminants such as soil or, on occasion, feces. While such contaminants serve as a good proxy for pathogen presence, meat inspectors and especially slaughter workers were much less aware of or concerned with invisible pathogens that may compromise meat safety. The role of process and meat handling did not figure very strongly in their concerns. Microorganisms such as Salmonella and Campylobacter, which can easily be ... |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper |
| وصف الملف: | application/pdf |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 2297-1769 |
| Relation: | Frontiers in Veterinary Science; Waldman , L , Hrynick , T , Benschop , J , Cleaveland , S , Crump , J , Davis , M , Mariki , B , Mmbaga , B , Mtui-Malamsha , N , Prinsen , G , Sharp , J , Swai , E , Thomas , K & Zadoks , R 2020 , ' Meat safety in northern Tanzania : inspectors' and slaughter workers' risk perceptions and management ' , Frontiers in Veterinary Science , vol. 7 , 309 . https://doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2020.00309; PURE: 268893916; PURE UUID: 3b22dc30-1ba7-4dd2-8c43-a7ce0f4a5133; ORCID: /0000-0001-5805-4296/work/76779626; Scopus: 85083967010; WOS: 000551651400001; http://hdl.handle.net/10023/20185; https://doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2020.00309 |
| DOI: | 10.3389/fvets.2020.00309 |
| الاتاحة: | http://hdl.handle.net/10023/20185 https://doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2020.00309 |
| Rights: | Copyright © 2020 Waldman, Hrynick, Benschop, Cleaveland, Crump, Davis, Mariki, Mmbaga, Mtui-Malamsha, Prinsen, Sharp, Swai, Thomas and Zadoks. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.AF50A111 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 22971769 |
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| DOI: | 10.3389/fvets.2020.00309 |