ASAS Centennial Paper: Developments and future outlook for postslaughter food safety

Journal of Animal Science

Volumn 87, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2448-2457

  Sofos, J N ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Food; Historical; Meat; Microbial; Outlook; Safety

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CATTLE; FOOD CONTROL; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; MEAT; MICROBIOLOGY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SAFETY; STANDARD; UNITED STATES;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; HUMANS; MEAT; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIETIES, SCIENTIFIC; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE;

EID: 67650520089     PISSN: 00218812     EISSN: 15253163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2527/jas.2008-1264     Document Type: Article

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