Fig 1.
Geographic location of study countries in Africa.
Table 1.
Scope and objectives of three food safety projects in Africa and associated food classification schemes and hazards.
Fig 2.
Expert identification, selection and enrollment for three African Structured Expert Judgment studies.
Table 2.
Expert educational backgrounds (highest degree obtained).
Table 3.
Sample calibration questions presented to experts in the three African countries.
Fig 3.
Example target question used in Ethiopia to attribute the burden of foodborne disease to food groups (ETEC only), food types or food products.
Fig 4.
Calibration score (x-axis) by information score (y-axis) for A) Ethiopia, B) Burkina Faso and C) Rwanda. Black dots depict individual experts in the study while red triangles represent the item weights optimized Decision Maker.
Table 4.
Attribution of foodborne disease due to enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli in Ethiopia to food groups.
Table 5.
Attribution of foodborne disease due to four selected hazards in Ethiopia to food types and food products.
Table 6.
Attribution of foodborne disease due to enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli in Burkina Faso to FERG food groups.
Table 7.
Attribution of foodborne disease in Burkina Faso to food types, and food products.
Table 8.
Attribution of foodborne disease due to five dairy-associated hazards in Rwanda to dairy food types, and food products.
Fig 5.
Treemap of mean estimates of the proportion of illnesses caused by Campylobacter spp., non-typhoidal Salmonella enterica, Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli and enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli through food group/type/product exposure pathways for Ethiopia.
Fig 6.
Treemap of mean estimates of the proportion of illnesses caused by Campylobacter spp., non-typhoidal Salmonella enterica and enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli through food group/type/product exposure pathways for Burkina Faso.
Fig 7.
Treemaps of mean estimates of the proportion of illnesses caused by Campylobacter spp., non-typhoidal Salmonella enterica, Brucella spp., Cryptosporidium spp. and Mycobacterium bovis through food group/type/product exposure pathways for Rwanda.