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

EFSA Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Andreoletti, Olivier ^a   Budka, Herbert ^a   Buncic, Sava ^a   Collins, John D ^a   Griffin, John ^a   Hald, Tine ^a   Havelaar, Arie ^a,a   Hope, James ^a   Klein, Günter ^a   Koutsoumanis, Kostas ^a   McLauchlin, James ^a   Müller Graf, Christine ^a   Nguyen The, Christophe ^a   Noerrung, Birgit ^a   Peixe, Luisa ^a   Maradona, Miguel Prieto ^a   Ricci, Antonia ^a   Sofos, John ^a   Threlfall, John ^a   Vågsholm, Ivar ^a   Vanopdenbosch, Emmanuel ^a   Alexander, Jan ^a   Benford, Diane ^a   Boobis, Alan ^a   Ceccatelli, Sandra ^a   Cottrill, Bruce ^a   Cravedi, Jean Pierre ^a   Di Domenico, Alessandro ^a   Doerge, Daniel ^a   Dogliotti, Eugenia ^a   Edler, Lutz ^a   Farmer, Peter ^a   Filipič, Metka ^a   Fink Gremmels, Johanna ^a   Fürst, Peter ^a   Guérin, Thierry ^a   Knutsen, Helle Katrine ^a   Machala, Miroslav ^a   Mutti, Antonio ^a   Schlatter, Josef ^a   Rose, Martin ^a   van Leeuwen, Rolaf ^a   Bøtner, Anette ^a   Broom, Donald ^a   Doherr, Marcus G ^a   Domingo, Mariano ^a   Hartung, Jörg ^a   Keeling, Linda ^a   Koenen, Frank ^a   More, Simon ^a   Morton, David ^a   Oltenacu, Pascal ^a   Osterhaus, Albert ^a   Salati, Fulvio ^a   Salman, Mo ^a,a   Sanaa, Moez ^a   Sharp, James M ^a   Stegeman, Jan A ^a   Szücs, Endre ^a   Thulke, Hans H ^a   Vannier, Philippe ^a   Webster, John ^a   Wierup, Martin ^a   Davies, Rob ^a   Lupo, Coralie ^a   Lopez, Vicente ^a   Romero Barrios, Pablo ^a   Amore, Giusi ^a   Liebana, Ernesto ^a   Fries, Reinhard ^a   McOrist, Steve ^a   O'Keeffe, Michael ^a   Nicolau Solano, Silvia Inés ^a   Curtui, Valeriu ^a   Virginie, Michel ^a   Jansson, Desiree ^a   Georgiev, Milen ^a   Afonso, Ana ^a   more..

^a European Food Safety Authority ^*

^b EUROPEAN FOOD SAFETY AUTHORITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

ante mortem; contaminants; Meat inspection; post mortem; poultry; residues; safety; slaughterhouse; surveillance

Indexed keywords

EID: 85078395052     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18314732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2903/j.efsa.2012.2741     Document Type: Article

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