Leveraging machine learning to assess market-level food safety and zoonotic disease risks in China
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Author(s)
Gao, Qihua
Levi, Retsef
Renegar, Nicholas
Date Issued
December 15, 2022
Journal
Scientific Reports
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Citation
Gao, Q., Levi, R. & Renegar, N. Leveraging machine learning to assess market-level food safety and zoonotic disease risks in China. Sci Rep 12, 21650 (2022).
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Final published version
Abstract
While many have advocated for widespread closure of Chinese wet and wholesale markets due to numerous zoonotic disease outbreaks (e.g., SARS) and food safety risks, this is impractical due to their central role in China’s food system. This first-of-its-kind work offers a data science enabled approach to identify market-level risks. Using a massive, self-constructed dataset of food safety tests, market-level adulteration risk scores are created through machine learning techniques. Analysis shows that provinces with more high-risk markets also have more human cases of zoonotic flu, and specific markets associated with zoonotic disease have higher risk scores. Furthermore, it is shown that high-risk markets have management deficiencies (e.g., illegal wild animal sales), potentially indicating that increased and integrated regulation targeting high-risk markets could mitigate these risks.
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Multidisciplinary
MIT Department
Sloan School of Management
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-25817-8
