About the Authors

Sandra Hoffmann

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

shoffmann@ers.usda.gov

Affiliation U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, Washington D.C., United States of America

Brecht Devleesschauwer

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Public Health and Surveillance, Scientific Institute of Public Health (WIV-ISP), Brussels, Belgium

Willy Aspinall

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Aspinall & Associates, Tisbury, United Kingdom, Bristol University, Bristol, United Kingdom

Roger Cooke

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Resources for the Future, Washington, D.C., United States of America, Technical University of Delft, Delft, Netherlands

Tim Corrigan

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Arie Havelaar

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

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

Frederick Angulo

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

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

Herman Gibb

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

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

Martyn Kirk

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

Robin Lake

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

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

Niko Speybroeck

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium

Paul Torgerson

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Tine Hald

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark

Competing Interests

Co-author Willy Aspinall is the owner of Aspinall & Associates. Co-author Herman J. Gibb is the owner of Gibb Epidemiology Consulting. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter our adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials as detailed online in the guide for authors. TH, BD, AHH, HJG, PRT, MDK, FJA, RJL, NP serve as members of the World Health Organization advisory body—the Foodborne Disease Burden Epidemiology Reference Group—without remuneration. All authors declare no competing interests.