Zoonotic pathogens in the food chain /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2011.
• Subjects: Foodborne diseases.; Zoonoses.; Health Economics, (New March 2000); Policy and Planning.; Pesticide and Drug Residues and Ecotoxicology, (New March 2000); Prion, Viral, Bacterial and Fungal Pathogens of Animals, (New March 2000); Milk and Dairy Produce.; Food Processing (General); Food Contamination, Residues and Toxicology.; Forage and Feed Products (Non-human); Prion, Viral, Bacterial and Fungal Pathogens of Humans, (New March 2000); Man.; Antibiotics.; Antiinfective agents.; Avian influenza.; Avian influenza viruses.; Bovine spongiform encephalopathy.; Crohn's disease.; Drug residues.; Feeds.; Food production.; Food safety.; Food supply.; Globalization.; Health policy.; Influenza viruses.; Livestock.; Manures.; Milk.; Milk supply.; Organic farming.; Pasteurization.; Pathogens.; Public health.; Raw milk.; Electronic books.
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This book focuses on food safety issues and discusses how livestock production may affect human health in general. Chapter 1 of this book describes the transformation of the food supply from a local activity to a global activity, and the problems with food safety that globalization brings. Chapter 2...

Table of Contents:

• Globalization of the food supply and the spread of disease / Susan C. Cook and Sylvia Checkley
• Epidemiology of pathogens in the food supply / Susan C. Cook
• Manure as a source of zoonotic pathogens / Gabriel J. Milinovich and Athol V. Klieve
• Animal feed as a source of zoonotic pathogens / Richard A. Holley
• Milk and raw milk consumption as a vector for human disease / Stephen P. Oliver and Shelton E. Murinda
• The contribution of antibiotic residues and antibiotic resistance genes from livestock operations to antibiotic resistance in the environment and food chain / Pei-Ying Hong, Anthony Yannarell and Roderick I. Mackie
• On-farm mitigation of enteric pathogens to prevent human disease / Trevor W. Alexander, Kim Stanford and Tim A. McAllister
• Organic agriculture and its contribution to zoonotic pathogens / Bastiaan G. Meerburg and Fred H.M. Borgsteede
• Zoonotic implications of avian and swine influenza / Juan C. Rodriguez-Lecompte, Sudhanshu Sekhar and Tomy Joseph
• Crohn's disease in humans and Johne's diseases in cattle: linked diseases? / Herman W. Barkerma, Stephen Hendrick, Jeroen M. De Buck, Subrata Ghosh, Gilaad G. Kaplan and Kevin P. Rioux
• Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies as a case study in policy development for zoonoses / Michael Trevan.