Capacity building: Benchmark for production of meat with low levels of bacterial contamination in local slaughterhouses in Somaliland

Tropical Animal Health and Production

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 427-433

  Wamalwa, Kinyanjui ^a   Castiello, Massimo ^a   Ombui, Jackson Nyarangi ^b   Gathuma, Joseph ^b  

^a FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Contamination; Hygiene standards; Meat; Slaughter facilities; Somaliland; Training

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM; CAPACITY BUILDING; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FOOD CONTROL; FOOD HANDLING; HYGIENE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LIVESTOCK; MEAT; MICROBIOLOGY; QUALITY CONTROL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SALMONELLA; SLAUGHTERHOUSE; SOMALIA; STANDARD;

ABATTOIRS; ANIMALS; BACTERIA; CAPACITY BUILDING; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FOOD HANDLING; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; HYGIENE; LIVESTOCK; MEAT; QUALITY CONTROL; QUESTIONNAIRES; SALMONELLA; SOMALIA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOVIDAE; SALMONELLA;

EID: 84856730996     PISSN: 00494747     EISSN: 15737438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11250-011-9914-1     Document Type: Article

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