Meat safety in Tanzania's value chain: experiences, explanations and expectations in butcheries and eateries
This study interviewed 64 operators about experiences with foodborne diseases and explanations and expectations around meat safety
Abstract
Urbanisation is associated with changes in consumption patterns and food production processes. These patterns and processes can increase or decrease the risks of outbreaks of foodborne diseases and are generally accompanied by changes in food safety policies and regulations about food handling. This affects consumers, as well as people economically engaged in the food value chain. This study looks at Tanzania바카라 사이트™s red meat value chain바카라 사이트”which in its totality involves about one third of the population바카라 사이트”and focuses on the knowledge, attitudes and reported practices of operators of butcheries and eateries with regards to meat safety in an urban and in a rural environment. We interviewed 64 operators about their experiences with foodborne diseases and their explanations and expectations around meat safety, with a particular emphasis on how they understood their own actions regarding food safety risks vis-Ã -vis regulations. We found operators of eateries emphasising their own agency in keeping meat safe, whereas operators of butcheries바카라 사이트”whose products are more closely inspected바카라 사이트”relied more on official inspections. Looking towards meat safety in the future, interviewees in rural areas were, relative to their urban counterparts, more optimistic, which we attribute to rural operators바카라 사이트™ shorter and relatively unmediated value chains.
This is a publication arising from the Zoonoses and Emerging Livestock Systems (ZELS) programme.
Citation
Prinsen G, Benschop J, Cleaveland S, Crump J, French N, Hrynick T, Mariki B, Mmbaga B, Sharp J, Swai E, Thomas K, Zadoks R, Waldman L (20020). Meat safety in Tanzania바카라 사이트™s value chain: experiences, explanations and expectations in butcheries and eateries. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 17:2833.