Thompson’s tip: Effective vermin control
Vermin are unpleasant for the staff, pose a health risk both to people and livestock, are highly destructive to fixtures and fitting and can eat a significant quantity of feed.
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USA: new online tool makes it easier for consumers to report food safety concerns
The USDA-FSIS unveiled a new online Electronic Consumer Complaint Form where consumers can report problems with meat, poultry, and egg products.
Canada: CFIA officially recognizes CSHB biosecurity standard
The aim is to assist the swine industry attain and apply the strategic objectives of bio-exclusion, bio-management and bio-containment of swine pathogens and zoonoses.
European Union: cross-border health threats: stepping up EU preparedness
MEPs backed plans to provide EU-wide early warning of all such threats and inserted a provision enabling member states to club together to buy vaccines.
IFAH white paper underlines the economic and social costs of animal diseases
The report concludes that animal diseases have economic impacts much beyond the direct costs caused by disease itself.
FSIS provides guidance for Listeria sampling programs in ready-to-eat meat and poultry products
FSIS intends to announce in the Federal Register, changes it will make in its procedures for Listeria monocytogenes product sampling programs in ready-to-eat meat and poultry products.
United Kingdom: report of Salmonella in pigs in 2011
There were 182 incidents of Salmonella in 2011, which is comparable to recent years.
USA to create publicly available food pathogen genome database
Genetic code sequencing of 100,000 food pathogens will provide roadmap to help identify causes of outbreaks.
United Kingdom: new salmonella control plan
The current meat juice testing for salmonella antibodies will be suspended on 1 July 2012.
Importance of the abattoir on the control of salmonellosis (2/2)
In this article Salmonella critical contamination points in the abattoir will be analyzed, as well as the measures that can be taken with regard to them.
Salmonella: control during the transportation stage
When exposed, the pigs get infected in less time than the length of the transportation and the waiting period (prior to the slaughter) in the abattoir.
USA: USDA announces new safeguards to protect consumers from foodborne illness
FSIS is proposing to launch traceback investigations earlier and identify additional potentially contaminated product when the Agency finds E. coli O157:H7 through its routine sampling program.
European Union: Salmonella in humans continues to decrease, Campylobacter increasing
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) have published their annual report on zoonoses and food-borne outbreaks in the European Union for 2010.
Fight against diseases and zoonoses: EU earmarks 214 million euros to better protect human and animal health
The EU earmarked yesterday more than €203 million to support programmes to eradicate, control and monitor animal diseases and zoonoses, aiming to further strengthen the protection of human and animal health in 2012.
Vietnam develops food security information system
Vietnam's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has approved the development of a new food security information system.
UE: EFSA completes first Opinion in meat inspection work
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has completed the first stage of a major piece of work that will provide the scientific basis for the modernisation of meat inspection across the EU.
The first set covers the inspection of swine.