Description of extended pre-harvest pig salmonella surveillance-and-control programme and its estimated effect on food safety related to pork

Zoonoses and Public Health

Volumn 57, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2010, Pages 6-15

  Alban, L ^a   Barfod, K ^b   Petersen, J V ^a   Dahl, J ^a   Ajufo, J C ^c   Sando G ^c   Krog, H H ^d   Aabo, S ^b  

^a Danish Agriculture and Food Council   (Denmark)

^b The Zoonosis Centre   (Denmark)

^c DANISH VETERINARY AND FOOD ADMINISTRATION   (Denmark)

^d Danish Crown ^*  (Denmark)

Author keywords

Carcass swab; Meat juice; Pigs; Pork; Salmonella; Simulation; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CARCASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENMARK; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FOOD SAFETY; HERD; INFECTION CONTROL; NONHUMAN; PIG FARMING; PORK; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLOSIS; SLAUGHTERHOUSE;

ABATTOIRS; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; DENMARK; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD HANDLING; FOOD SAFETY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MEAT; PREVALENCE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA FOOD POISONING; SALMONELLA INFECTIONS; SALMONELLA INFECTIONS, ANIMAL; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; ZOONOSES;

SALMONELLA; SUIDAE;

EID: 78649625025     PISSN: 18631959     EISSN: 18632378     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1863-2378.2010.01367.x     Document Type: Article

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