About the Authors

Tine Hald

tiha@food.dtu.dk

Affiliation Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark

Willy Aspinall

Affiliations Aspinall & Associates, Tisbury, England, Bristol University, Bristol, England

Brecht Devleesschauwer

Affiliations Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium, Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Roger Cooke

Affiliations Resources for the Future, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America, Technical University of Delft, Delft, the Netherlands

Tim Corrigan

Affiliation World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Arie H. Havelaar

Affiliations National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, the Netherlands, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands

Herman J. Gibb

Affiliation Gibb Epidemiology Consulting LLC, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America

Paul R. Torgerson

Affiliation University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Martyn D. Kirk

Affiliation The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

Fred J. Angulo

Affiliation U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Robin J. Lake

Affiliation Institute of Environmental Science and Research, Christchurch, New Zealand

Niko Speybroeck

Affiliation Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium

Sandra Hoffmann

Affiliation U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

Competing Interests

Co-author WA is the owner of Aspinall & Associates. Co-author HJG is the owner of Gibb Epidemiology Consulting. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials as detailed online in the guide for authors.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TH WA RC AH HG PT MK FA RL SH. Performed the experiments: TH TC SH. Analyzed the data: TH WA RC BD NS SH. Wrote the paper: TH WA BD RC AH MK FA RL NS SH.