Table 1. Input parameters for the economic model.

Description	Point estimator	Unit	Min	Max	Source
BoD and COI attributable to meatborne toxoplasma infections in 2016
DALYs by toxoplasmosis via meatborne infectionsa	326				Estimated*
DALY value	50,000	€			[29]
COI of toxoplasmosis via meatborne infectionsa	7.9	million			Estimated*
Freezing meat intervention
Pork meat consumptionb	37.4	Kg			[28]
Beef meat consumptionb	14.2	Kg			[28]
Mutton meat consumptionb	1.2	Kg			[28]
Steak tartare portion sizecd		g	11	53	[27]
No of portions steak tartarecd	330	million			[27]
Meat percentage steak tartare/portiond		%	50.84	73.96	QMRA
Steak (beef) portion size		g	44	224	[27]
No of steak portionsd	14	million			[27]
Lamb chop portion size		g	28	214	[27]
No of lamb chop portionsd	3	million			[27]
Leg of mutton portion size	158	g			[27]
No of leg of mutton portionsd	0.8	million			[27]
Price elasticity meat	-0.7				[30]
Freezing costs/kg		€	0.10	0.15	e
Biosecurity intervention
No of fattening pig farms	4,000				[31]
No fattening pigs/farm	1,450				[31]
No fattening pigs slaughtered/year	15,034,000				[31]
Fattening pigs/lorry when delivered	200				e
No of fattening pigs tested/lorry			1	10	e
Cost serological test	5	€			[32]
Positive tested farmsf		%	12	20	[33, 34]
Annual costs rodent control/pig farm		€	400	4000	g
Feed cost/fattening pig/yearf	65	€			[31]
Less spilled feed		%	0	0.1	Assumption
Costs for an additional audit (4 hours)	132	€			[35]d
Effectiveness	1	%			[36]

^a discounted at 3% a large part of the associated BoD (in particular the sequelae) and costs do not occur in the year of the infection itself, but happen later in life,

^bper person and year in the Netherlands,

^csteak tartare also known as filet americain,

^dconsumed in the Netherlands per year,

^epersonal communication VION Food group,

^fassumption based on quadrupling the % of positive tested farms, based on the % of infected pigs in a recent study which is four times higher than found in a previous study,

^gpersonal communication branch organisation of rodent control, averaged 2013–2015,

BoD = Burden of Disease, COI = Cost-of-Illness, DALY = disability adjusted life year,

*We used the average as point estimator, for more details see S1 and S2 Tables.