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Delia Grace, ILRI "Using Value Chains to Leverage Food Safety in Informal Markets"
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Using value chains to leverage food
safety in informal markets
Delia Grace, Program Leader Food Safety and Zoonoses, ILRI
Theme Leader, Agriculture Associated Diseases, CRP A4NH
Nutrition and health outcomes: targets for agricultural research
ISPC, Bonn, 23-25th September, 2013
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Country Percent
Kenya 86
Tanzania 95
Uganda 90
Rwanda 90
Ethiopia 95
Malawi 95
Zambia 90
Source, A. Omore, 2006
Percent milk marketed via informal
markets in selected countries in the
region
Why the informal sector matters
Country Super-markets
Angola 1
Botswana 42
DRC 0
Lesotho 4
Mauritius 12
Malawi 2
Mozambique 3
Namibia 35
Tanzania 5
Seychelles 0
Swaziland 18
Zambia 20
Zimbabwe 124
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Formal sector is
not always better
and informal is
often persisting
Every study finds
benefits of
informal sector:
especially for
women and the
poor
Hazards are not
risks
Raw milk Pasteurised
100%
Fail to meet standards
• Generates million of jobs
• Raw milk earns more for the farmer
and costs less for the household
• Consumers prefer taste and
provenance of local products
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How do risk-based approaches
differ from conventional public
health?
Look at paths, as well as products
Solution oriented not problem oriented
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Waste Disposal Utensils Cleaning
regime
Cold storage Personal
hygiene
Ingredient
storage
Preparation Selling area
hygiene
Hygienescore
Poor quality sweeets
Good or moderate quality sweets
Traditional FS focus
on hygiene
Risk-based FS on
where things go
wrong
What is different between
traders who sell safe dairy
sweets and those who sell
risky sweets?
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Example:
This study showed effective risk
mitigation of informally-marketed
milk by a traditional food
processing
Incidence rate 19.7/1000
If not fermented,
303.6/1000