Due to the most recent outbreak of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS CoV2), having spread on a worldwide scale and
associated with a wet market in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, as the initial source of human virus infection, the need for systematic food safety
engineering of wet markets is urgent.
Food safety hazards in wet markets are reviewed concisely in this work and different mitigation strategies are discussed, that are likely to
have an immediate impact on potential hazards and aim at minimizing the chance of foodborne pathogen occurrences and transmissions at these
markets. Moreover, the topic of pathogen detection and traceability is raised as a prerequisite for advocating the perpetuation of wet markets in
addition to their cultural and existential significance.