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Santillana Farakos SM, Heilman J, Abt E, Dennis S. Approaches to risk-benefit assessment of seafood consumption: lessons learned from an evidence scan. Front Nutr 2024; 11:1290680. [PMID: 38425480 PMCID: PMC10902146 DOI: 10.3389/fnut.2024.1290680] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2023] [Accepted: 02/01/2024] [Indexed: 03/02/2024] Open
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Qualitative and quantitative risk-benefit assessments (RBA) can be used to support public health decisions in food safety. We conducted an evidence scan to understand the state of the science regarding RBA in seafood to help inform seafood dietary advice in the United States. We collected published RBA studies assessing seafood consumption, designed inclusion and exclusion criteria to screen these studies, and conducted systematic data extraction for the relevant studies published since 2019. Our findings indicate the selection of health risks and benefits does not generally follow a systematic approach. Uncertainty and variability in RBAs is often not addressed, and quantitative RBAs making use of a single health metric generally have not been leveraged to directly support published regulatory decisions or dietary guidance. To elevate the role of RBA in supporting regulatory decision-making, risk assessors and risk managers must work together to set expectations and goals. We identified the need for a prioritization phase (e.g., multicriteria decision analysis model) to determine the risks and benefits of greatest public health impact to inform the RBA design. This prioritization would consider not only the degree of public health impact of each risk and benefit, but also the potential for risks and benefits to converge on common health outcomes and their importance to subpopulations. Including a prioritization could improve the utility of the RBAs to better inform risk management decisions and advance public health. Our work serves to guide the United States Food and Drug Administration's approaches to RBA in foods.
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Li Z, Jin Y, Wang X, Xu L, Teng L, Fu K, Li B, Li Y, Huang Y, Ma N, Cui F, Chai T. Health Risk Assessment of Antibiotic Pollutants in Large Yellow Croakers from Zhejiang Aquaculture Sites. Foods 2023; 13:31. [PMID: 38201059 PMCID: PMC10778301 DOI: 10.3390/foods13010031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2023] [Revised: 12/13/2023] [Accepted: 12/16/2023] [Indexed: 01/12/2024] Open
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Intensive aquaculture combatting the decline of large yellow croaker populations can trigger bacterial outbreaks, resulting in extensive antibiotic use. In this study, we screened 5 aquaculture sites in the coastal areas of Zhejiang and identified 17 antibiotics in large yellow croakers using UPLC-MS/MS. The distribution and occurrence of antibiotic pollutants were different in the different tissues of large yellow croakers, being primarily dominated by quinolones. Relatively higher average residue levels of enrofloxacin and ciprofloxacin were detected in the inedible parts, specifically the gills (37.29 μg/kg). Meanwhile, relatively high average residue levels of enrofloxacin and ciprofloxacin were also found in the edible parts, particularly in the muscle (23.18 μg/kg). We observed that the residue levels detected in the swim bladder exceeded the prescribed limit for fish muscle, but there is currently no specific regulatory limit established for this particular tissue. Despite the HI values of enrofloxacin and ciprofloxacin being below 0.01, the health risks should not be disregarded. The findings of this research provide significant practical implications for assessing antibiotic contamination and enhancing the risk management of coastal regions.
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- Zongjie Li
- College of Food and Health, Zhejiang A & F University, Hangzhou 311300, China; (Z.L.); (Y.J.); (X.W.); (L.X.); (L.T.)
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- College of Food and Health, Zhejiang A & F University, Hangzhou 311300, China; (Z.L.); (Y.J.); (X.W.); (L.X.); (L.T.)
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- College of Food and Health, Zhejiang A & F University, Hangzhou 311300, China; (Z.L.); (Y.J.); (X.W.); (L.X.); (L.T.)
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- College of Food and Health, Zhejiang A & F University, Hangzhou 311300, China; (Z.L.); (Y.J.); (X.W.); (L.X.); (L.T.)
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- College of Food and Health, Zhejiang A & F University, Hangzhou 311300, China; (Z.L.); (Y.J.); (X.W.); (L.X.); (L.T.)
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- Collaborative Innovation Center of Green Pesticide, Zhejiang A & F University, Hangzhou 311300, China; (K.F.); (B.L.); (Y.L.); (F.C.)
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- Collaborative Innovation Center of Green Pesticide, Zhejiang A & F University, Hangzhou 311300, China; (K.F.); (B.L.); (Y.L.); (F.C.)
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- Collaborative Innovation Center of Green Pesticide, Zhejiang A & F University, Hangzhou 311300, China; (K.F.); (B.L.); (Y.L.); (F.C.)
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- Fishery Resource and Environment Research Center, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Beijing 100141, China; (Y.H.); (N.M.)
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- Fishery Resource and Environment Research Center, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Beijing 100141, China; (Y.H.); (N.M.)
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- Collaborative Innovation Center of Green Pesticide, Zhejiang A & F University, Hangzhou 311300, China; (K.F.); (B.L.); (Y.L.); (F.C.)
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- College of Food and Health, Zhejiang A & F University, Hangzhou 311300, China; (Z.L.); (Y.J.); (X.W.); (L.X.); (L.T.)
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Liu X, Wu H, Wang Y, Liu Y, Zhu H, Li Z, Shan P, Yuan Z. Comparative assessment of Chinese mitten crab aquaculture in China: Spatiotemporal changes and trade-offs. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (BARKING, ESSEX : 1987) 2023; 337:122544. [PMID: 37709121 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2023.122544] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2023] [Revised: 08/25/2023] [Accepted: 09/11/2023] [Indexed: 09/16/2023]
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The increasing human demand for high-quality animal protein has provided impetus for the development of aquaculture. Chinese mitten crab (Eriocheir sinensis) is a catadromous species rapidly being cultured in China but scientific literature documenting its life cycle environmental and economic consequences remains scarce. This study aims to address this gap by examining the spatio-temporal evolution of crab aquaculture in China since the 2000s and evaluating the environmental and economic characteristics along its life-cycle stages: megalopa, juvenile crab, and adult crab cultivation. The geostatistical analysis shows a more dispersed pattern of crab aquaculture nationally as crab grows, with coastal provinces that have brackish water for megalopa cultivation but wider spatial coverage for juvenile and adult crab cultivation. Our findings reveal that the production of 1 ton of live-weight crab results in 7.65 ton of CO2 equivalent of greenhouse gas emissions, surpassing previous estimates for finfish fish production by approximately 50%. Most environmental pressures occur during the adult crab cultivation stage, with significant contributions from upstream processes such as electricity and feed production. By comparing between different production systems, our study shows that crab aquaculture in lake systems performs better than pond systems in terms of most global environmental impact categories and economic considerations. This work contributes to the existing literature by elucidating the spatio-temporal changes of crab aquaculture boom in China and constructing a representative life cycle data pool that broadens the benchmark knowledge on its environmental and economic characteristics. We highlight the trade-offs between environmental and economic performance as well as the balance between global and local environmental impacts to promote sustainable growth in the aquaculture industry.
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- Xin Liu
- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China
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- School of Earth and Environment, Anhui University of Science and Technology, Huainan, 232001, China
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- Institute of Geography, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, 350007, China
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- Norwegian College of Fishery Science, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Norway
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China
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- Institute of Geography, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, 350007, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China.
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