scispace - formally typeset
Open AccessJournal ArticleDOI

The Food Systems in the Era of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic Crisis.

Charis M. Galanakis
- 22 Apr 2020 - 
- Vol. 9, Iss: 4, pp 523-523
TLDR
The current article explores the food systems in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, providing insights about the properties of bioactive ingredients of foods and herbs for the support of the human immune system against infections before discussing the possibility of CO VID-19 transmission through the food chain.
Abstract
The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19, broadly referred to as “coronavirus”) a global pandemic, while thousands of infections and deaths are reported daily. The current article explores the food systems in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. It provides insights about the properties of bioactive ingredients of foods and herbs for the support of the human immune system against infections before discussing the possibility of COVID-19 transmission through the food chain. It also highlights the global food security issues arising from the fact that one-third of the world’s population is on lockdown. Finally, it underlines the importance of sustainability in the food chain in order to avoid or reduce the frequency of relevant food and health crises in the future.

read more

Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI

Impact of COVID-19 on the food supply chain

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate the impact of COVID-19 on the agriculture and food sector and summarize the recommendations required to reduce and control the effect of the pandemic.
Journal ArticleDOI

Safety of foods, food supply chain and environment within the COVID-19 pandemic

TL;DR: This review summarizes the possible transmission ways of COVID-19 through the foods, food supply chain, surfaces, and environment before exploring the development of corresponding detection tools of SARS-CoV-2.
Journal Article

Impacts of COVID-19 on Food Supply Chain

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors determined the impact of COVID-19 in the agriculture and food sector and summarized the recommendations required to reduce and control the effect of the pandemic on the food supply chain.
Journal ArticleDOI

Innovations and technology disruptions in the food sector within the COVID-19 pandemic and post-lockdown era

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated potential innovations within the era of the COVID-19 crisis after framing them within the four issues of the food sector (food safety, bioactive food compounds, food security, and sustainability) that are directly affected by the pandemic.
References
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI

A pneumonia outbreak associated with a new coronavirus of probable bat origin

TL;DR: Identification and characterization of a new coronavirus (2019-nCoV), which caused an epidemic of acute respiratory syndrome in humans in Wuhan, China, and it is shown that this virus belongs to the species of SARSr-CoV, indicates that the virus is related to a bat coronav virus.
Journal ArticleDOI

Global trends in emerging infectious diseases

TL;DR: It is concluded that global resources to counter disease emergence are poorly allocated, with the majority of the scientific and surveillance effort focused on countries from where the next important EID is least likely to originate.
Journal ArticleDOI

Factors in the emergence of infectious diseases.

TL;DR: These factors are increasing in prevalence; this increase suggests that infections will continue to emerge and probably increase and emphasizes the urgent need for effective surveillance and control.
Journal ArticleDOI

Vitamin C and Immune Function

TL;DR: Prophylactic prevention of infection requires dietary vitamin C intakes that provide at least adequate, if not saturating plasma levels, and treatment of established infections requires significantly higher doses to compensate for the increased inflammatory response and metabolic demand.
Related Papers (5)