Scientific Opinion on the public health hazards to be covered by inspection of meat (solipeds)

EFSA Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Andreoletti, Olivier ^a   Baggesen, Dorte Lau ^a   Bolton, Declan ^a   Butaye, Patrick ^a   Cook, Paul ^a   Davies, Robert ^a   Fernández Escámez, Pablo S ^a   Griffin, John ^a   Hald, Tine ^a   Havelaar, Arie ^a   Koutsoumanis, Kostas ^a   Lindqvist, Roland ^a   McLauchlin, James ^a   Nesbakken, Truls ^a   Prieto, Miguel ^a   Ricci, Antonia ^a   Ru, Giuseppe ^a   Sanaa, Moez ^a   Simmons, Marion ^a   Sofos, John ^a   Threlfall, John ^a   Buncic, Sava ^a   Jensen, Henrik Elvang ^a   Pozio, Edoardo ^a   Benford, Diane ^a   Ceccatelli, Sandra ^a   Cottrill, Bruce ^a   Dinovi, Michael ^a   Dogliotti, Eugenia ^a   Edler, Lutz ^a   Farmer, Peter ^a   Fürst, Peter ^a   Hoogenboom, Laurentius ^a   Knutsen, Helle Katrine ^a   Haldorsen, Anne Katrine Lundebye ^a   Metzler, Manfred ^a   Nebbia, Carlo Stefano ^a   O‘Keeffe, Michael ^a   Rietjens, Ivonne ^a   Schrenk, Dieter ^a   Silano, Vittorio ^a   van Loveren, Hendrik ^a   Vleminckx, Christiane ^a   Wester, Pieter ^a   Fink Gremmels, Johanna ^a   Fries, Reinhard ^a   McOrist, Steven ^a   Nebbia, Carlo ^a   Authie, Edith ^a   Berg, Charlotte ^a   Bøtner, Anette ^a   Browman, Howard ^a   Capua, Ilaria ^a   De Koeijer, Aline ^a   Depner, Klaus ^a   Domingo, Mariano ^a   Edwards, Sandra ^a   Fourichon, Christine ^a   Koenen, Frank ^a   More, Simon ^a   Raj, Mohan ^a   Sihvonen, Liisa ^a   Spoolder, Hans ^a   Stegeman, Jan Arend ^a   Thulke, Hans Hermann ^a   Vågsholm, Ivar ^a   Velarde, Antonio ^a   Willeberg, Preben ^a   Zientara, Stéphan ^a   Broom, Donald ^a   Doherr, Marcus ^a   Meier, Hanspeter ^a   Oltenacu, Pascal ^a   Salman, Mo ^a   Wierup, Martin ^a   Warns Petit, Eva ^a   Chavarrias, Vicente Lopez ^a   Stella, Pietro ^a   Liébana, Ernesto ^a   Mazzolini, Elena ^a   Nicolau Solano, Silvia Inés ^a   Curtui, Valeriu ^a   Cioacata, Gina ^a   Mackay, Karen ^a   Georgiev, Milen ^a   Afonso, Ana ^a   more..

^a European Food Safety Authority ^*

^b EUROPEAN FOOD SAFETY AUTHORITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

contaminants; horse; meat inspection; residues; slaughterhouse; soliped; surveillance

Indexed keywords

EID: 85078394782     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18314732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2903/j.efsa.2013.3263     Document Type: Article

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