Author: Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on the Review of the USDA E coli O157:H7 Farm-to-Table Process Risk Assessment
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Category : Beef
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee
Publisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 9780215054197
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee report that current arrangements for testing and control across the European food industry have failed UK consumers. The Food Standards Agency (FSA) needs clear powers and responsibilities so that it can respond more effectively to any future food adulteration scandal. The Committee's short inquiry into contamination of beef products by horsemeat and pork follows a growing problem of food adulteration across Europe, first reported from Ireland in January 2013. The report recommends: the FSA be given the statutory powers to require producers to undertake testing, taking into account the level of risk; all testing results must be reported to the FSA whether they are mandated by the FSA or carried out independently; a broader range of testing to provide greater assurance to consumers. The Committee warns the Government that it should not, at this time, propose to reduce the labelling standards applied to British food. Moreover, the findings to date are likely to be the tip of the iceberg. The strong indications that people have intentionally substituted horsemeat for beef lead the Committee to conclude that British consumers have been cynically and systematically duped in pursuit of profit by elements within the food industry.

Author: Fidel Toldrá
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0387890262
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 701

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Safety of Meat and Processed Meat provides the reader with the recent developments in the safety of meat and processed meat, from the abattoir along the processing chain to the final product. To achieve this goal, the editor uses five approaches. The first part deals with the main biological contaminants like pathogen microorganisms, specially E. coli and L. monocytogenes, toxins and biogenic amines that can be present either in meat or its derived products. The second part focuses on main technologies for meat decontamination as well as developments like active packaging or bioprotective cultures to extend the shelf life. The third part presents non-biological contaminants and residues in meat and meat products including nitrosamines, PAH, veterinary drugs and environmental compounds. The fourth part discusses current methodologies for the detection of microorganisms, its toxins, veterinary drugs, environmental contaminants and GMOs, and the final part deals with predictive models, risk assessment, regulations on meat safety, consumer perception, and other recent trends in the field. This book is written by distinguished international contributors with excellent experience and reputation. In addition, brings together advances in different safety approaches.

Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309175771
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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The use of drugs in food animal production has resulted in benefits throughout the food industry; however, their use has also raised public health safety concerns. The Use of Drugs in Food Animals provides an overview of why and how drugs are used in the major food-producing animal industriesâ€"poultry, dairy, beef, swine, and aquaculture. The volume discusses the prevalence of human pathogens in foods of animal origin. It also addresses the transfer of resistance in animal microbes to human pathogens and the resulting risk of human disease. The committee offers analysis and insight into these areas: Monitoring of drug residues. The book provides a brief overview of how the FDA and USDA monitor drug residues in foods of animal origin and describes quality assurance programs initiated by the poultry, dairy, beef, and swine industries. Antibiotic resistance. The committee reports what is known about this controversial problem and its potential effect on human health. The volume also looks at how drug use may be minimized with new approaches in genetics, nutrition, and animal management.

Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 030908928X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 425

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Food safety regulators face a daunting task: crafting food safety performance standards and systems that continue in the tradition of using the best available science to protect the health of the American public, while working within an increasingly antiquated and fragmented regulatory framework. Current food safety standards have been set over a period of years and under diverse circumstances, based on a host of scientific, legal, and practical constraints. Scientific Criteria to Ensure Safe Food lays the groundwork for creating new regulations that are consistent, reliable, and ensure the best protection for the health of American consumers. This book addresses the biggest concerns in food safetyâ€"including microbial disease surveillance plans, tools for establishing food safety criteria, and issues specific to meat, dairy, poultry, seafood, and produce. It provides a candid analysis of the problems with the current system, and outlines the major components of the task at hand: creating workable, streamlined food safety standards and practices.

Author: John N. Sofos
Publisher: Elsevier Inc. Chapters
ISBN: 0128056452
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 76

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Microbial contamination of meat and meat products is unavoidable as microorganisms are present on animals and in their environment. Thus, raw and not fully heated (commercially processed) or otherwise processed/preserved (e.g. frozen, fermented/dried, high hydrostatic pressure processed, irradiated) meat and meat products are prone to spoilage and compromised safety due to microbial presence and growth. Raw meat products (although few consumers eat certain meat products raw or undercooked, intentionally or accidentally; a practice not recommended) need further processing and/or cooking before consumption. This makes them shelf-stable or semi-perishable, and safe for consumption or ready-to-eat. In general, the shelf-life, quality and safety of meat and meat products are extended and improved through adequate processing, appropriate marketing, storage and preparation for consumption, under properly clean, sanitary and hygienic conditions, following an integrated approach throughout all sectors of the food supply web, including producers, processors, distributors, retailers, as well as consumers. The strategy for hazard control should include: (1) good animal production practices on the farm; (2) slaughtering of animals that are disease-free; (3) processing of carcasses and meat in properly designed and maintained facilities and under sanitary and hygienic conditions; (4) use of decontamination intervention strategies, if approved, to reduce microbial levels when needed; (5) thermal processing, freezing, drying, fermentation, acidification, use of approved antimicrobials in certain products, and packaging; (6) maintenance of proper cold chain conditions during distribution; (7) proper storage and preparation procedures by food service and consumers; and (8) management of every segment of this common sense but complex system, with well-validated, verified and documented programs such as the hazard analysis critical control point (HACCP) system.

Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309030447
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 393

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Author: Amy Kovacs
Publisher:
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Category : Escherichia coli
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Begoña Panea
Publisher: MDPI
ISBN: 3039433725
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 154

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Food safety is a major problem around the world, both with regard to human suffering and with respect to economic costs. Scientific advances have increased our knowledge surrounding the nutritional characteristics of foods and their effects on health. This means that a large proportion of consumers are much more conscious with respect to what they eat and their demands for quality food. Food quality is a complex term that includes, in addition to safety, other intrinsic characteristics, such as appearance, color, texture and flavor, and also extrinsic characteristics, such as perception or involvement.

Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 030917709X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 43

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To ensure the safety of food distributed through the National School Lunch Program, food banks, and other federal food and nutrition programs, the United States Department of Agriculture has established food safety and quality requirements for the ground beef it purchases. This National Research Council book reviews the scientific basis of the Department's ground beef safety standards, evaluates how the standards compare to those used by large retail and commercial food service purchasers of ground beef, and looks at ways to establish periodic evaluations of the Federal Purchase Ground Beef Program. The book finds that although the safety requirements could be strengthened using scientific concepts, the prevention of future outbreaks of foodborne disease will depend on eliminating contamination during production and ensuring meat is properly cooked before it is served.