Food Safety Assurance and Veterinary Public Health : Food Safety Assurance in the Pre-Harvest Phase

Food Safety Assurance in the Pre-Harvest Phase

By: Frans J.M. Smulders (Editor)

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A number of pre-harvest factors jeopardize the safety of foods of animal origin. Factors related to the food animal environment are addressed in this publication by scientists affiliated with both academia and industry.

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Preface	p. 13
Keynote contributions	p. 15
The EU food safety action plan	p. 17
Introduction	p. 17
The White Paper on Food Safety	p. 17
Issues with an Impact for the Veterinary Public Health Sector	p. 20
Conclusions	p. 22
Approaches to pre-harvest food safety assurance	p. 23
Summary	p. 23
Introduction	p. 23
Statement of the Problem	p. 25
Animal Slaughtering Industry Approaches To Food Safety	p. 26
Responsibilities Of The Pre-harvest Sector	p. 27
Chemical Residues and Antimicrobial Resistance Control Approaches	p. 31
Pre-harvest Microbial Pathogen Control Approaches	p. 32
Conclusions	p. 41
References	p. 42
Microbiological concerns associated with animal feed production	p. 49
Summary	p. 49
Introduction	p. 49
Human Foodborne Diseases	p. 50
Zoonotic Foodborne Diseases	p. 51
Other Relevant Microorganisms and Regulations	p. 57
Special Cases	p. 58
Swill Feeding	p. 61
References	p. 62
Natural and industrial contaminants in animal feeds: emerging substances	p. 63
Summary	p. 63
Introduction	p. 63
Heavy Metals	p. 64
Pesticides and Organic Pollutants	p. 66
Mycotoxins	p. 67
Hormonally Active Substances	p. 67
Conclusions	p. 68
References	p. 68
The industrial production of safe animal feeds in Europe	p. 71
Summary	p. 71
Introduction	p. 71
The EU Legislation	p. 72
Legislation Controlling the Materials which can be Used in Compounded Animal Feeds	p. 72
Legislation Controlling the Manufacture of Compound Animal Feeds	p. 77
FEFAC Guidelines for the Implementation of a Code of Practice for the Manufacture of Animal Feedingstuffs	p. 79
Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points	p. 81
Consumer demands	p. 84
Conclusions	p. 85
References	p. 86
Modern methodologies for isolation/typing of animal-borne human pathogens: A research update on epidemiological tools I. Recombinant antigens for antibody-based diagnosis	p. 87
Summary	p. 87
Introduction	p. 88
Classic Immunoassays Using Native Antigen Preparation	p. 88
Advantages in Using Recombinant Proteins as Target Antigens	p. 89
Generation of Recombinant Antigens	p. 91
Selection of a Target Antigen	p. 94
Recombinant Antigens in Serodiagnostic Applications: Mycoplasma bovis Serology as an Example	p. 95
Drawbacks in Using Recombinant Antigens	p. 100
Use of Recombinant Antigens in Alternative Applications	p. 100
Conclusions	p. 101
References	p. 102
Modern methodologies for isolation/typing of animal-borne human pathogens: A research update on epidemiological tools II. Quantitative real-time PCR	p. 105
Summary	p. 105
Introduction	p. 105
Principle of Real-Time PCR	p. 106
Fidelity of Real-Time PCR assays	p. 107
Influence of Mutations on Sensitivity	p. 109
Multiplex Real-Time PCR Assays	p. 110
Applications in Food Hygiene	p. 113
Conclusions	p. 113
References	p. 113
Pre-harvest health and quality monitoring, risk assessment and their relevance to the food chain	p. 115
Summary	p. 115
Introduction	p. 115
Herd Health Programmes: the Need for Animal and Farm Monitoring	p. 116
Risks Associated with Trade in Livestock	p. 117
Animal Health and International Trade	p. 119
Food Chain Issues	p. 121
Other Examples of Risk Assessment in Livestock Production in Relation to Human Health	p. 122
Conclusions	p. 122
References	p. 123
Human pathogens associated with on-farm practices - Implications for control and surveillance strategies	p. 125
Summary	p. 125
Introduction	p. 126
Zoonoses - Towards a Broadened View	p. 127
Selected Human Pathogens - Spread and Transmission	p. 127
Factors Influencing Human Pathogens at the Farm Level	p. 132
References	p. 137
Emerging pathogenic bacteria of special interest; epidemiological concerns	p. 141
Summary	p. 141
Introduction	p. 141
An Evolutionary Process	p. 143
The Classics: Milk and Meat	p. 144
Emerging Patterns of Disease	p. 145
Conclusions	p. 149
References	p. 151
Veterinary drug use in farm animal production and the antibiotic resistance problem	p. 153
Summary	p. 153
Introduction	p. 153
Consumption of Antimicrobial Agents for Food Animals	p. 154
Antimicrobial Resistance	p. 157
Prudent Use of Antimicrobial Agents	p. 161
Exclusion or Downgrading of Certain Antimicrobial Agents	p. 163
Discussion	p. 164
Conclusions	p. 165
References	p. 167
An overview of current research on animal transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE)	p. 171
Summary	p. 171
Introduction	p. 171
History of TSE	p. 172
Origin of BSE and New TSE	p. 174
Connections between Animal and Human TSE	p. 175
Risks to Humans from BSE	p. 175
The TSE Agents and Strains	p. 176
Detection of Infected Animals	p. 177
BSE in Cattle	p. 177
Control Measures	p. 180
Leakiness of Bans and Further Action	p. 182
Mechanically Recovered Meat (MRM)	p. 183
The Role of the World Health Organisation (WHO)	p. 185
The Role of the Office International des Epizooties (OIE)	p. 186
European Commission Decisions	p. 186
Other Actions on BSE	p. 187
Network for Control	p. 188
Lessons from the BSE Epidemic	p. 189
Conclusions	p. 189
References	p. 191
Research-based TSE surveillance strategies in europe	p. 195
Introduction	p. 195
Surveillance vs. Monitoring	p. 195
Phases in the Development of Surveillance and Monitoring	p. 196
The TSE Situation in Denmark	p. 204
Discussion	p. 207
Conclusions	p. 213
Acknowledgement	p. 214
References	p. 214
Safety aspects associated with preharvest conditions of aquatic food products	p. 217
Summary	p. 217
Introduction	p. 218
Biotoxins	p. 219
Pathogenic Bacteria	p. 222
Viruses	p. 224
Parasites	p. 225
Chemicals	p. 227
Concluding remarks	p. 227
References	p. 228
Food safety in seafood; epidemiological concerns related to the geography of fishing grounds	p. 229
Summary	p. 229
Introduction	p. 229
Basic Aspects of Seafood	p. 231
The Initial Microflora of Seafood	p. 232
Fish Safety Concerns	p. 233
Risks Related to the Geography of Selected Fish Pathogens	p. 235
Conclusions	p. 242
References	p. 243
Synopses of other conference contributions	p. 247
Preliminary results of salmonella challenge experiments in broilers fed with fermented liquid feed	p. 249
Influence of different types of husbandry and feeding on lead contents of selected cattle tissues	p. 252
C. botulinum contamination in honey	p. 254
Honey: Relationships between heavy metals content and place of origin	p. 256
Prevalence of Salmonella along a meat pork production system	p. 260
Epidemiology of Cryptosporidium parvum and Giardia duodenalis on a dairy farm	p. 262
The influence of the immune status of slaughter pigs on the endogenous contamination of muscle tissue	p. 265
Yersiniosis: Foodborne disease and underestimated diagnostical problem	p. 268
Prevalence of thermophilic Campylobacter spp. in Danish turkeys at slaughter	p. 271
European follow-up study in Salmonella seronegative and seropositive pig herds	p. 273
The influence of type of production on the occurrence of Salmonella in the Danish table-egg production	p. 276
Detecting Cryptosporidium parvum and Giardia intestinalis from surface water by polymerase chain reaction	p. 279
Epidemiology of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis in Finland	p. 281
Prevalence of Clostridium botulinum type B, E and F in faecal samples from Swedish pigs	p. 283
Epidemiology and evolution of enterobacteriaceae infections in humans and domestic animals: peri- and post-harvest risk identification and quantification of foodborne transmission	p. 285
Potential for the spread of food-borne pathogens in the cattle lairage environment	p. 287
The use of plasmid profile analysis to study the epidemiology of salmonellas in broiler chicken flocks	p. 290
An investigation into the changed physiological state of vibrio organisms as a survival mechanism in response to nutrient limitation at low temperatures	p. 293
Development of methods to detect Cryptosporidium parvum and Giardia lamblia in biosolids applied to land	p. 296
On-farm hazard analysis critical control points (HACCP) for improving the safety of lamb and beef	p. 299
The disclosure of tuberculous lesions at slaughter in cattle from attested herds in CO. Monaghan in 1995	p. 302
Animal health & pre-harvest food safety in organic dairy farming	p. 306
The biocontrol of E. coli 0157:H7 at farm level	p. 309
Alteration of intestinal cell monolayers by pathogenic Escherichia coli: importance of the tracer used to measure paracellular permeability	p. 311
Epidemiologic study on post mortem findings recorded in an Italian abattoir for sheep	p. 314
Salmonella prevention in styrian parent flocks	p. 317
Salmonella monitoring of styrian swine herds	p. 320
Occurrence of Campylobacter spp. in styrian broiler flocks	p. 323
An example of the application of HACCP principles and methodology to the safety of raw milk production - monitoring raw milk contamination from udder origin	p. 326
Live dairy cull cow characteristics and associated microbial contamination	p. 330
Active surveillance for BSE, targeting risk groups	p. 333
The cause of variant CJD	p. 335
A pilot study for bse active surveillance in Italy: Preliminary results	p. 339
The use of waste animal fats as feedstock for the production of an environmental friendly fuel for diesel engines (biodiesel)	p. 342
Animal TSE surveillance system in the province of Styria	p. 346
Lead, mercury and cadmium burden of the german mud flats (Wattenmeer) does not hamper quality of common shrimp	p. 349
Prevalence of Clostridium botulinum type E in finnish wild and farmed fish	p. 351
Molecular epidemiology of norwalk-like viruses in Ireland - emerging agents of foodborne disease	p. 353
A case-study of the microbiological condition of a carp pond and the associated fish quality, with particular reference to human pathogens	p. 355
Listeria monocytogenes in finnish raw fish	p. 358
Environment-related factors influencing end-aquaculture product quality, focusing on antibiotics residues at the pre-harvest phase	p. 360
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	p. 363
The two component system PHOP/PHOQ is required for full chloramphenicol resistance in the multiresistant Salmonella typhimurium DT104	p. 368
Biographies	p. 373
Index	p. 381
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