Food and Water Safety Technologies Gone Viral
The enemy of my enemy is my friend: How bacteriophages are being used to reimagine food and water safety.
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Providing the world population with sufficient quantities of safe food and drinking water is hampered by several factors, including erratic weather patterns from climate change and global overpopulation (Berners-Lee et al. 2018). Within the United States, the annual aggregated economic burden of foodborne disease is estimated to be between $51 billion and $71 billion, depending on the model used (Scharff 2012). The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that the annual global burden of foodbo…
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