Integrated food safety and veterinary public health /

• Main Author: Buncic, Sava, (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2006.
• Subjects: Food industry and trade > Quality control.; Food of animal origin > Quality control.; Veterinary public health.; Animal Slaughter.; Meat Produce.; Food Contamination, Residues and Toxicology.; Prion, Viral, Bacterial and Fungal Pathogens of Humans, (New March 2000); Animal products.; Food hygiene.; Food preparation.; Food processing.; Food production.; Food safety.; Food technology.; Foodborne diseases.; Hygiene.; Meat hygiene.; Meat inspection.; Meat production.; Meat products.; Public health.; Risk assessment.; Slaughter.; Zoonoses.; Electronic books.
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 The importance of food safety in human health has been widely recognized. The safety of foods of animal origin is particularly relevant because the large majority of foodborne diseases originate from poultry, egg, meat and dairy products and fish. This textbook covers an integrated approach to this type of food production, hygiene and safety, and shows how it results in concurrent benefits to animal well being, human health, protection of the environment and socioeconomics. The topics covered in this textbook include ways of optimizing farming practices, controlling notifiable and zoonotic diseases, hygienic animal slaughter, food preservation and processing, food retailing and food handling in catering and domestic environments. This book will be of significant interest to students of veterinary medicine, animal science, environmental health and food science and technology. It will also be of interest to professionals working in the meat hygiene service.