This study builds an integrated framework that maps where and when AFB1 risk & #PublicHealth burden actually concentrates across China’s #peanut #SupplyChains. A few highlights:
📍 Average disease burden: 3.51 DALYs (roughly one year of healthy life lost) per 100,000 population nationally.

🚚 Interprovincial peanut and peanut oil flows account for 52% more local disease burden than in-province production — meaning where food is grown is not where the health risk lands.

🎯 Reallocating #monitoring to high-risk transfer pathways reduced projected national health burden by 25 percentage points.

Beyond #China, the framework is transferable to any food system where mycotoxin risks travel through complex supply chains — including many low- and middle-income countries where aflatoxin remains a persistent public health challenge.

A key takeaway is that food safety risk does not necessarily remain where contamination originates. It moves through supply chains, and monitoring strategies need to reflect that.

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