Low-cost options for reducing consumer health risks from farm to fork where crops are irrigated with polluted water in West Africa
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Low-cost options for reducing consumer health risks from farm to fork where crops are irrigated with polluted water in West Africa. / Amoah, Philip; Keraita, Bernard; Akple, Maxwell; Drechsel, Pay; Abaidoo, Robert; Konradsen, Flemming.
1 udg. Colombo Sri Lanka : International Water Management Institute, 2011. 45 s. (IWMI Research Report, Bind 141).Publikation: Bog/antologi/afhandling/rapport › Bog › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Low-cost options for reducing consumer health risks from farm to fork where crops are irrigated with polluted water in West Africa
AU - Amoah, Philip
AU - Keraita, Bernard
AU - Akple, Maxwell
AU - Drechsel, Pay
AU - Abaidoo, Robert
AU - Konradsen, Flemming
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - To identify interventions which reduce health risks of consumers where highly polluted irrigation water is used to irrigate vegetables in West Africa, scientists worked over 5 years with farmers, market traders and street food vendors in Ghana. The most promising low-cost interventions with high adoption potential were analyzed for their ability to reduce common levels of pathogens (counts of fecal coliforms and helminth eggs). The analysis showed the combination potential of various interventions, especially on-farm and during vegetable washing in line with the World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines. The tested market-based interventions were important to prevent new or additional contamination
AB - To identify interventions which reduce health risks of consumers where highly polluted irrigation water is used to irrigate vegetables in West Africa, scientists worked over 5 years with farmers, market traders and street food vendors in Ghana. The most promising low-cost interventions with high adoption potential were analyzed for their ability to reduce common levels of pathogens (counts of fecal coliforms and helminth eggs). The analysis showed the combination potential of various interventions, especially on-farm and during vegetable washing in line with the World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines. The tested market-based interventions were important to prevent new or additional contamination
KW - Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences
KW - wastewater
KW - wastewater use
KW - food hygiene
U2 - 10.5337/2011.201
DO - 10.5337/2011.201
M3 - Book
T3 - IWMI Research Report
BT - Low-cost options for reducing consumer health risks from farm to fork where crops are irrigated with polluted water in West Africa
PB - International Water Management Institute
CY - Colombo Sri Lanka
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