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Article Dans Une Revue International Journal of Environmental Health Research Année : 2023

Inclusion of microbiological food safety as a novel aspect in life cycle assessments of food production

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The life cycle assessment (LCA) methodology currently covers a limited number of human health-related impact categories. Microbiological food safety is an essential aspect for the selection of an appropriate food production system and has been neglected in the LCA so far. A framework for the inclusion of a microbiological food safety indicator, expressed as disability-adjusted life year (DALY) value of the consumed food product to the human health damage category (end-point) was created, and applied in a case study model on the cooked-chilled meals as the ready-to-eat meals can be associated with the occurrence of foodborne illness cases and outbreaks. This study suggests a framework for the inclusion of microbiological risk caused by Bacillus cereus associated with the consumption of ready-to-eat meals (in Belgium) in the LCA. The results indicated that the microbiological risk of one package of the investigated ready-to-eat meal was 1.95 × 10−6 DALY, and the obtained DALY value was included as an impact category in the LCA methodology. Inclusion of other categories of food safety (including chemical safety hazards, pesticide residues, heavy metals, and mycotoxins) in LCA could be done in the same fashion.
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hal-04193118 , version 1 (01-09-2023)

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Amin Nikkhah, Sami Ghnimi, Nicole Tichenor Blackstone, Farima Nikkhah, Liesbeth Jacxsens, et al.. Inclusion of microbiological food safety as a novel aspect in life cycle assessments of food production. International Journal of Environmental Health Research, 2023, pp.1-13. ⟨10.1080/09603123.2023.2248899⟩. ⟨hal-04193118⟩
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