Kate M. Thomas

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated the performance and costs of serological assays for human brucellosis in a pastoralist community in northern Tanzania using seven index tests, selected based on international recommendation or current use.

TL;DR: This study looks at Tanzania’s red meat value chain and finds operators of eateries emphasising their own agency in keeping meat safe, whereas operators of butcheries—whose products are more closely inspected—relied more on official inspections.

TL;DR: Recognizing the perceptions and practices of frontline actors who engage with meat, and the ways in which social, material and institutional realities shape these, is important for understanding how decisions about risk and meat safety are made in the complexity and context of everyday life, and thus for finding effective ways to support them to further enhance their work.

TL;DR: Experiential knowledge gained from numerous ongoing projects in northern Tanzania, including those dealing with bacterial zoonoses associated with febrile illness, foodborne disease, and anthrax are presented.

TL;DR: The current tendency to view frontline actors’ partial enforcement of meat safety regulations as a failure obscures the creative and proactive ways in which they seek to ensure meat safety in a context of limited resources.