ReviewEnvironmental health insights2022
Food Safety in Sub-Sahara Africa, An insight into Ghana and Nigeria.
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- Vendor Hygiene Practices, Temporal Variation, and Microbial Quality of Soya Kebabs Sold in Public and Private Basic Schools in Sunyani, Ghana.Food science & nutrition · 2026Article
- Climate-driven disruptions in local food systems and the transmission pathways of food-borne neglected tropical diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Patterns of Suya (roasted beef) consumption, awareness of trace metal contamination, and food safety practices among residents of Yenagoa Metropolis, Nigeria.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Factors associated with microbiological non-compliance in ready-to-eat foods: A seven-year analysis of official food safety surveillance data in a tropical low- and middle-income country.PLOS global public health · 2026Article
- One Health Approaches to Ethical, Secure, and Sustainable Food Systems and Ecosystems: Plant-Based Diets and Livestock in the African Context.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- The Economic and Public Health Burden of Foodborne Illness in Somalia: Prevalence, Costs, and Policy Imperatives.Public health challenges · 2025Article
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- Slow-growing Salmonella enterica serovariety Typhi mis-identified as serovariety Gallinarum in Ibadan, Nigeria.PLOS global public health · 2025Article
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- Outbreak detection in Harar town and Kersa district, Ethiopia using phylogenetic analysis and source attribution.BMC infectious diseases · 2024Article
- Three novel Enterobacter cloacae bacteriophages for therapeutic use from Ghanaian natural waters.Archives of virology · 2024Article
- Knowledge, attitudes and practices of fresh Nile perch value chain handlers towards food safety requirements in Uganda.Heliyon · 2024Article
- Food safety knowledge and practices among raw meat handlers and the microbial content of raw meat sold at Kumasi Abattoir Butchery Shops in Kumasi, Ghana.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Foodborne Microbiological Hazards in Ghana: A Scoping Review.Environmental health insights · 2024Article
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Abstract
Food safety is a global concern in today's world, and harnessing food safety in Sub-Saharan Africa, especially Nigeria and Ghana are momentous. This review presents an insight into the situation of food safety in Nigeria and Ghana. Using a desktop review technique, research papers were evaluated to find major sources of food safety concerns. It was revealed that many studies reported on food contamination at the consumption level whereas few reported on the healthiness of the production chain. Improper handling of food at the local markets, vending sites hygiene practices of food vendors, and bad transportation and packing systems have all been implicated. Inadequate education is a major cause of food contamination, especially at the consumption level. Again, etiologic agents responsible for food-borne illness in Ghana and Nigeria range from viruses, fungi, parasites, and protozoans to bacteria. They include rotavirus, hepatitis A virus, Lassa fever (LHF), human noroviruses (HNoV),
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