Animal health and food safety

Animal cloning and food safety.

Food Safety in Animal Production

Air pollution has been one of Europe’s main political concerns since the late 1970’s. The aim of EU-policy is to develop and implement appropriate instruments to improve air quality. The Sixth Environment Action Programme, “Environment 2010: Our future, Our Choice” regards the period from 2001 until 2010. One of the important issues of the EAP is the reduction of greenhouse gasses. This also su...

Risk and the food safety chain: animal health, public health and the environment.

Food safety related to the consumption of animal-derived protein encompasses a wide variety of production and processing procedures which begins with the farm and inputs to the animals on the farm (e.g. feed and water) and includes the environment in which animals are reared. Hazards may be physical, artificial or naturally-occurring chemicals, organisms which cannot reproduce outside a specifi...

Benefits of linking public health, animal health, and food safety surveillance.

I many countries, there is increasing pressure to integrate surveillance of public health (“disease surveillance”) with surveillance of the risk factors that may precede public health events, now frequently referred to as “surveillance of exposure” (SOE). In Canada, this pressure comes from several sources, including the government departments responsible for public health, terrorism prevention...

Animal production food safety: priority pathogens for standard setting by the World Organisation for Animal Health.

In this short study, expert opinion and a literature review were used to identify the pathogens that should be prioritised by the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) for the development of future standards for animal production food safety. Prioritisation was based on a pathogen's impact on human health and amenability to control using on-farm measures. As the OIE mandate includes allevi...