{"id":3906,"date":"2015-08-02T22:59:52","date_gmt":"2015-08-03T02:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=3906"},"modified":"2015-08-02T22:59:52","modified_gmt":"2015-08-03T02:59:52","slug":"food-and-water-safety-in-a-warmer-climate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2015\/08\/food-and-water-safety-in-a-warmer-climate\/","title":{"rendered":"Food and water safety in a warmer climate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Quartz<\/em> magazine online published an <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/469541\/one-of-the-biggest-threats-from-climate-change-is-one-the-world-still-isnt-talking-about\/\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> recently describing challenges to food and water safety in the future if climate continues to get warmer. \u00a0Both water-borne diseases and microbial and chemical toxins in food are expected to increase under those conditions.<\/p>\n<p>For example, aflatoxins are expected to increase in warmer weather. \u00a0Aflatoxin\u00a0is &#8220;a mycotoxin common in maize, peanuts, tree nuts, and cottonseed grown in warm climates. It is the most potent human liver carcinogen known, and synergizes with chronic hepatitis B virus infection to greatly increase the risk of liver cancer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Public health officials are studying how the incidence of these challenges to determine the best courses of action to take to counteract them.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3907\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3907\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/08\/Breydon_Water_Autumn_Sunset._-_geograph.org_.uk_-_467120.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3907\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/08\/Breydon_Water_Autumn_Sunset._-_geograph.org_.uk_-_467120-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Source: Dave Bloom \/ Commons Wikimedia\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/08\/Breydon_Water_Autumn_Sunset._-_geograph.org_.uk_-_467120-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/08\/Breydon_Water_Autumn_Sunset._-_geograph.org_.uk_-_467120-208x138.jpg 208w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/08\/Breydon_Water_Autumn_Sunset._-_geograph.org_.uk_-_467120.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3907\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Dave Bloom \/ Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quartz magazine online published an article recently describing challenges to food and water safety in the future if climate continues to get warmer. \u00a0Both water-borne diseases and microbial and chemical toxins in food are expected to increase under those conditions. For example, aflatoxins are expected to increase in warmer weather. \u00a0Aflatoxin\u00a0is &#8220;a mycotoxin common in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":3907,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3908,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3906\/revisions\/3908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}