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...

Table of Contents:

• Food Chain and Health Hazards
• On-farm Factors and Health Hazards
• Meat Industry
• Pre-slaughter Phase
• Slaughter and Dressing
• Post-mortem Meat Inspection
• Meat Preservation and Processing
• Meat Safety Management at the Abattoir
• Hygiene of Production : Processing of Other Foods
• Food Hygiene and Safety at the Retail-Consumer Phase
• Principles of Longitudinal and Integrated Food Safety Assurance.