One Health in Food Science and Technology

Food systems sit at the most direct interface between human health and the wider natural world — connecting human populations to the animal production environments and ecosystems that shape what we eat, how safe it is, and how nutritionally secure it can be. The One Health approach, now formally championed by the Quadripartite (WHO, FAO, UNEP, and WOAH), offers a unifying framework to address the shared drivers of disease, environmental degradation, and nutritional insecurity across species and ecosystems. One Health is an integrated, unifying approach that aims to sustainably balance and optimize the health of people, animals and ecosystems. It recognizes the health of humans, domestic and wild animals, plants, and the wider environment (including ecosystems) are closely linked and inter-dependent. As global food chains grow increasingly complex and climate change reshapes agricultural landscapes, integrating One Health principles into food science and technology has become both urgent and scientifically imperative.From the proliferation of antimicrobial-resistant organisms along the farm-to-fork continuum, to zoonotic spillover events linked to food production environments, to the nutritional and safety consequences of biodiversity loss and environmental contamination — these challenges demand cross-sectoral responses that transcend any single discipline. Food scientists, veterinarians, public health professionals, ecologists, and policymakers must work in concert to build food systems that are safer, more equitable, and resilient to emerging threats.This Research Topic invites original research, systematic reviews, and translational studies that apply One Health thinking across the spectrum of food science and technology, with clear relevance to human nutrition and public health outcomes.Key themes of interest include:• Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in food systems: surveillance, transmission dynamics, and mitigation strategies from primary production to consumption• Foodborne zoonoses and emerging pathogens: detection, epidemiology, and cross-species risk assessment in food production and processing environments• Microbiome interconnections along the food chain: linking soil, animal, food, and human gut microbiomes to nutritional and health outcomes• Sustainable food technologies through a One Health lens: novel processing methods, alternative proteins, and circular economy approaches evaluated for environmental and human health co-benefitsClimate change, food safety, and nutritional security: how shifting ecologies affect pathogen behaviour, chemical contaminant exposure, and dietary nutrient qualityPromoting human, animal and environmental health; better understanding of food systems; sustainable planet Topic editors: Alejandro Cifuentes, Bárbara Socas-Rodríguez, MARIA MACIEL Source: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/83445/one-health-in-food-science-and-technology