Engaging northern communities in the monitoring of country food safety and wildlife health

• Main Authors: Simard, Manon, Gajadhar, Alvin A., Jones, Andria, Rokicki, Antoni Jerzy, Elkin, Brett, Blais, Burton, Leighton, Frederick, Forbes, Lorry B., Nielsen, Ole
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Cryospheric Information Network 2016
• Subjects: Anisakidae; E. coli; Fishes; Mammals; Pathogen; Salmonella; Toxoplasma gondii; Traditional food; Trichinella; Zoonosis; International Polar Year-Engaging communities in the monitoring of zoonoses, country food safety and wildlife health; Arctic; Nunavut; Nunavik; Hudson; Nain; Arviat; caribou; Human health; International Polar Year; inuit; walrus*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5443/11448; https://www.polardata.ca/pdcsearch/?doi_id=11448

This project has proven the benefits of having northern laboratories and by training several northerners for wildlife sampling and laboratory techniques. In collaboration with the scientists working at the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and Gdansk University, we achieved the following: 1) Developme...