Food Safety Assurance in the Pre-Harvest Phase addresses the following areas:

• factors related to the food animal environment (industrial activity in the immediate production surroundings leading to microbiological or chemical contamination)
• epidemiological factors resulting from intrinsic characteristics of classical and emerging microorganisms
• chemical pollution
• husbandry/harvesting practices (particularly associated with animal feed)
• veterinary activities introducing antobiotic resistancy of foodborne pathogens

Contents

• The EU food safety action plan
• Approaches to pre-harvest food safety assurance
• Microbiological concerns associated with animal feed production
• Natural and industrial contaminants in animal feeds: emerging substances
• Food safety assurance in the pre-harvest phase
• The industrial production of safe animal feeds in Europe
• Modern methodologies for isolation/typing of animal-borne human pathogens: A research update on epidemiological tools
• Modern methodologies for isolation/typing of animal-borne human pathogens: A research update on epidemiological tools
• Pre-harvest health and quality monitoring, risk assessment and their relevance to the food chain
• Human pathogens associated with on-farm practices - Implications for control and surveillance strategies
• Emerging pathogenic bacteria of special interest; epidemiological concerns
• Veterinary drug use in farm animal production and the antibiotic resistance problem
• An overview of current research on animal transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE)
• Research-based TSE surveillance strategies in europe
• Safety aspects associated with preharvest conditions of aquatic food products
• Food safety in seafood; epidemiological concerns related to the geography of fishing grounds
• Preliminary results of salmonella challenge experiments in broilers fed with fermented liquid feed
• Influence of different types of husbandry and feeding on lead contents of selected cattle tissues
• C. botulinum contamination in honey
• Honey: Relationships between heavy metals content and place of origin
• Prevalence of Salmonella along a meat pork production system
• Epidemiology of Cryptosporidium parvum and Giardia duodenalis on a dairy farm
• The influence of the immune status of slaughter pigs on the endogenous contamination of muscle tissue
• Yersiniosis: Foodborne disease and underestimated diagnostical problem
• Prevalence of thermophilic Campylobacter spp. in Danish turkeys at slaughter
• European follow-up study in Salmonella seronegative and seropositive pig herds
• The influence of type of production on the occurrence of Salmonella in the Danish table-egg production
• Detecting Cryptosporidium parvum and Giardia intestinalis from surface water by polymerase chain reaction
• Epidemiology of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis in Finland
• Prevalence of Clostridium botulinum type B, E and F in faecal samples from Swedish pigs
• Epidemiology and evolution of enterobacteriaceae infections in humans and domestic animals: peri- and post-harvest risk identification and quantification of foodborne transmission
• Potential for the spread of food-borne pathogens in the cattle lairage environment
• The use of plasmid profile analysis to study the epidemiology of salmonellas in broiler chicken flocks
• An investigation into the changed physiological state of vibrio organisms as a survival mechanism in response to nutrient limitation at low temperatures
• Development of methods to detect Cryptosporidium parvum and Giardia lamblia in biosolids applied to land
• On-farm hazard analysis critical control points (HACCP) for improving the safety of lamb and beef
• The disclosure of tuberculous lesions at slaughter in cattle from attested herds in CO. Monaghan in 1995
• Animal health & pre-harvest food safety in organic dairy farming The biocontrol of E. coli O157:H7 at farm level
• Alteration of intestinal cell monolayers by pathogenic Escherichia coli : importance of the tracer used to measure paracellular permeability
• Epidemiologic study on post mortem findings recorded in an Italian abattoir for sheep
• Salmonella prevention in styrian parent flocks
• Salmonella monitoring of styrian swine herds
• Occurrence of Campylobacter spp. in styrian broiler flocks
• An example of the application of HACCP principles and methodology to the safety of raw milk production - monitoring raw milk contamination from udder origin
• Live dairy cull cow characteristics and associated microbial contamination
• Active surveillance for BSE, targeting risk groups
• The cause of variant CJD
• A pilot study for bse active surveillance in Italy: Preliminary results
• The use of waste animal fats as feedstock for the production of an environmental friendly fuel for diesel engines (biodiesel)
• Animal TSE surveillance system in the province of Styria
• Lead, mercury and cadmium burden of the german mud flats (Wattenmeer) does not hamper quality of common shrimp
• Prevalence of Clostridium botulinum type E in finnish wild and farmed fish
• Molecular epidemiology of norwalk-like viruses in Ireland - emerging agents of foodborne disease
• A case-study of the microbiological condition of a carp pond and the associated fish quality, with particular reference to human pathogens
• Listeria monocytogenes in finnish raw fish
• Environment-related factors influencing end-aquaculture product quality, focusing on antibiotics residues at the pre-harvest phase
• A comparative assessment of the use of ammonium-ferric(III)- hexacyanoferrate(II) (AFCF) and bentonite from polish geological deposits in reducing the radiocaesium transfer to hen eggs
• The two component system PHOP/PHOQ is required for full chloramphenicol resistance in the multiresistant Salmonella typhimurium DT104

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