The UK Plant Health Risk Register: a tool for prioritizing actions

EPPO Bulletin ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. H. A. Baker ◽  
H. Anderson ◽  
S. Bishop ◽  
A. MacLeod ◽  
N. Parkinson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Risk ◽  
Plant Health ◽  
The Uk

Using International Trade Data to Inform the Plant Health and Biosecurity Response in the UK

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 117-120
Author(s):  
Nicola Spence ◽  
Sam Grant
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
International Trade ◽  
Health Risk ◽  
Native Species ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Plant Health ◽  
Pests And Diseases ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
The Uk

Plants are essential for supporting human life, providing food, oxygen and medicine as well as benefits to health from interacting with nature. Plants also play a crucial role in ecosystems and in mitigating the effects of climate change. The importance of plants to humans and to the environment is gaining a higher level of attention in today's political and social landscape. The Great Britain Plant Health and Biosecurity Strategy will be updated this year to reflect upcoming challenges for maintaining high biosecurity standards while the Tree Health Resilience Strategy protects our trees going forward, allowing for adaption to environmental change and building resilience to future threats. Additionally, 2020 is the FAO's International Year of Plant Health providing a unique opportunity to raise the profile of plant heath further on a global scale. Critical to biosecurity is the global trade in plants and plant commodities which may offer us the option to grow plants that are more suited to a future, warmer climate and thus more resilient to climate change, but which brings with it an increased risk of invasive pests and diseases. It is important that we protect our native species and minimise the risks of introducing new pests and diseases. The UK's plant health regime aims to manage that risk to protect the value of plants and trees, both as crops and forestry products, as well as ecosystem services and societal benefits. The UK is a net importer of plants and plant commodities and it is the role of the Plant Health and Seeds Inspectorate (PHSI) and the Forestry Commission (FC) to carry out checks on imported material. Given that there are over 1,000 pests on the UK Plant Health Risk Register the challenge cannot be understated. It is unrealistic to expect that we can provide effective protection from all pests and diseases so potentially serious pests which are identified by the UK Plant Health Risk Group are subject to a detailed pest risk analysis (PRA) following internationally agreed methodologies. Import inspections are risk-based and use the outcomes of the PRA as the basis for focusing resource to the highest threats. The experimental statistics released by Defra in March 2020 'Plant Health – international trade and controlled consignments, 2014–2018' were developed to address some of the evidence gaps around plant health related trade and the value of plant health, and to provide users with information on the work of import inspectors.

1992 and the UK livestock sector: An overview

1989 ◽  
Vol 1989 ◽  
pp. 41-41
Author(s):  
N A Young
Keyword(s):  
European Market ◽  
Plant Health ◽  
Member States ◽  
Excise Duty ◽  
Health Checks ◽  
Livestock Sector ◽  
Single European Market ◽  
Physical Barriers ◽  
The Uk

The European Community's plan to create a single European market by the end of 1992 emphasises that this will be achieved when the Community has done away with physical, technical and fiscal barriers to trade. Physical barriers refer to frontier controls on goods and persons (eg customs, animal and plant health checks, transport restrictions). Fiscal barriers comprise all obstacles and significant distortions among member states that derive from differences in the rates of both VAT and excise duty. Any other obstacles are categorised as technical barriers (eg food compositional laws, additive regulations).

scholarly journals Sun exposure of indoor workers in the UK – survey on the time spent outdoors

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 120-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. A. Baczynska ◽  
M. Khazova ◽  
J. B. O'Hagan
Keyword(s):  
Health Risk ◽  
Sun Exposure ◽  
Uv Exposure ◽  
Benefit Analysis ◽  
Lifestyle Questionnaire ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Risk Benefit Analysis

A lifestyle questionnaire has been used to obtain information on the time spent outdoors by indoor workers that could be used in combination with dosimetry studies in smaller targeted groups to quantify UV exposure for health risk/benefit analysis.

Does hepatitis a pose a significant health risk to recreational water users?

1997 ◽  
Vol 35 (11-12) ◽  
pp. 171-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. J. Gammie ◽  
A. P. Wyn-Jones
Keyword(s):  
Health Risk ◽  
Hepatitis A ◽  
Hepatitis A Virus ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Oral Route ◽  
Recreational Water ◽  
Intimate Contact ◽  
Water Users ◽  
Prime Concern ◽  
The Uk

In recent years recreational water use in the UK has increased dramatically and it has been estimated that more than twenty million people use the British coastline annually. In addition, there has been a marked increase in the number of people who use inland water e.g. lakes, reservoirs, rivers and canals. The ready availability of the wet suit has altered the public use of recreational water in several ways in the UK. Longer periods of immersion are now becoming normal with year-round activity now common not just during the accepted bathing season of May-September. Further factors that raise the importance of health implications are the growth of sports which involve intimate contact with water: surfing, windsurfing and boogie boarding. The raised public awareness of environmental issues in general makes health risk assessment a prime concern. Hepatitis A virus infection is transmitted by the faecal-oral route and this study compares two groups of water users, surfers and inland windsurfers. Saliva samples were tested for total antibody to hepatitis A as this indicates the immune status of the individual. All participants completed a questionnaire that elicited concomitant risk factors for previous exposure to hepatitis A. A calculated Odds Ratio of 3.03 and a Chi square of 5.3 with a probability of P = 0.02 was obtained when the non-immunised surfers were compared with the non-immunised windsurfers. This shows a statistical correlation between surfing and exposure to hepatitis A virus. It is recommended that surfers should be offered vaccination in order that they are protected from the risk of acquiring hepatitis A. They should also be given the opportunity to make a considered decision about the risks of acquiring hepatitis A recreationally.

scholarly journals Do arsenic levels in rice pose a health risk to the UK population?

2020 ◽  
Vol 197 ◽  
pp. 110601 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manoj Menon ◽  
Binoy Sarkar ◽  
Joseph Hufton ◽  
Christian Reynolds ◽  
Saul Vazquez Reina ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Risk ◽  
The Uk

Disease surveillance in England and Wales, August 2017

2017 ◽  
Vol 181 (10) ◽  
pp. 257-260 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Disease Surveillance ◽  
African Swine Fever ◽  
Plant Health ◽  
List Type ◽  
Surveillance Network ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Surveillance Report ◽  
Emerging Issues ◽  
The Uk

Current and emerging issues: psoroptic mange in cattleHighlights from the scanning surveillance networkUpdate on international disease threatsAfrican swine fever in eastern Europe and the risk to the UKThese are among matters discussed in the Animal and Plant Health Agency’s (APHA’s) disease surveillance report for August 2017

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