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How a single aspect of climate change can make food less safe

Year of publication 2020

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 1p.

Author FAO

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Infographic

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) This infographic aims to educate on the ways in which climate change makes food less safe through effects on different food safety hazards. To highlight the point, a single aspect of climate change - rising temperatures - is used to show how it impacts a number of food safety hazards like foodborne pathogens, mycotoxins, algal toxins and heavy metals, simultaneously and globally.

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