Food-borne zoonoses, the EU zoonosis legislation and the prospects for food safety and consumer protection during primary animal production

Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift

Volumn 120, Issue 19-20, 2008, Pages 587-598

  Smulders, Frans J M ^a   Vågsholm, Ivar ^b   Korkeala, Hannu ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^b NATIONAL VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

EU legislation; Food safety; Salmonella; Veterinary public health; Zoonoses

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; AVIAN INFLUENZA; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; BRUCELLOSIS; CYSTICERCOSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; EUROPEAN UNION; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD SAFETY; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; MEAT INDUSTRY; MORBIDITY; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; Q FEVER; RABIES; REVIEW; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLOSIS; SARCOCYSTOSIS; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS; YERSINIOSIS; ZOONOSIS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; FOODBORNE DISEASES; INFECTION CONTROL; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRODUCT SAFETY; SAFETY; TRANSMISSION;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY; EUROPEAN UNION; FOODBORNE DISEASES; HUMANS; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; ZOONOSES;

EID: 58049187678     PISSN: 00435325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00508-008-1061-y     Document Type: Review

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