Food Safety Hazards and Microbiological Zoonoses in European Meat Imports Detected in Border Inspection in the Period 2008-2013

Zoonoses and Public Health

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 53-61

  Jansen, W ^a   Grabowski, N ^a   Gerulat, B ^b   Klein, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b Border Inspection Post Hamburg Harbour   (Germany)

Author keywords

Border control; Food safety criteria; Public health; Rapid alert system for food and feed

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD CONTROL; FOOD SAFETY; HEALTH HAZARD; MEAT; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; POULTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; ZOONOSIS; ANIMAL; BRAZIL; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; EUROPEAN UNION; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRANSMISSION; ZOONOSES;

ANIMALS; BRAZIL; COMMERCE; EUROPEAN UNION; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; FOOD SAFETY; HUMANS; MEAT; POULTRY; SALMONELLA; SHIGA-TOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84953839043     PISSN: 18631959     EISSN: 18632378     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/zph.12204     Document Type: Article

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