Authors:
Serafim Bakalis, Serafim Bakalis, Vasilis P. Valdramidis, Dimitrios Argyropoulos, Lilia Ahrné, Jianshe Chen, Patrick J. Cullen, Enda Cummins, Ashim K. Datta, Christos Emmanouilidis, Timothy J. Foster, Peter J. Fryer, Ourania Gouseti, Almudena Hospid (...)
Serafim Bakalis, Serafim Bakalis, Vasilis P. Valdramidis, Dimitrios Argyropoulos, Lilia Ahrné, Jianshe Chen, Patrick J. Cullen, Enda Cummins, Ashim K. Datta, Christos Emmanouilidis, Timothy J. Foster, Peter J. Fryer, Ourania Gouseti, Almudena Hospido, Kai Knoerzer, Alain Le-Bail, Alejandro G. Marangoni, Pingfan Rao, Oliver Schlüter, Petros Taoukis, Epameinondas Xanthakis, Jan Van Impe
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Abstract:
Within a few weeks the world has changed, at the time this text is written (May 2020) more than 3.5 million people have been confirmed cases of COVID-19 and estimations propose up to a hundred times the number of actually infected. A third of the global population is on lockdown and a large part of our global economic activity has stopped. Food and access to food has played a visual role in portraying the impact of the outbreak on our society, with images of empty supermarket shelves appearing in mainstream media. In some countries closed schoo (...)
Within a few weeks the world has changed, at the time this text is written (May 2020) more than 3.5 million people have been confirmed cases of COVID-19 and estimations propose up to a hundred times the number of actually infected. A third of the global population is on lockdown and a large part of our global economic activity has stopped. Food and access to food has played a visual role in portraying the impact of the outbreak on our society, with images of empty supermarket shelves appearing in mainstream media. In some countries closed schools resulted in many children not having access to free meals and mobilised a number of charities. While parts of the world are now exiting lockdown and measures start relaxing the near future remains uncertain with more waves of the pandemic expected. Given that there is currently no evidence to show that transmission of COVID-19 could occur through food or food packaging there has been limited discussion on the issue, implications and potential future scenarios within the wider food science community.
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