Rotten meat and bottled formaldehyde: fighting for food safety

critical evaluation for adoption of food safety systems in the turkish dairy and meat processing businesses

the adoption of food safety systems (fsss) is of major significance in the food industry, and that approach is especially of more promience in dairy and meat processing firms. in this study the aim was to introduce the factors affecting the probability of adoption of fsss in the dairy and the meat processing plants in aydin, western turkey. it was observed that ten out of twenty-eight dairy bus...

Toxoplasma gondii in Meat and Food Safety Implications – A Review

Nevertheless, there are many reasons for foodborne disease remaining a global public health challenge. As some diseases are controlled, others emerge as new threats. New agents of risk have occupied the ecological niche of those on which control pressure has been exerted, replacing the previous ones. The proportions of the population who are elderly, immunosuppressed or otherwise disproportiona...

Fresh Meat Consumption and Food Safety: Behavior of Belgium Consumers

Recent food safety issues have dramatically changed the meat scene throughout Europe. Consumer reactions are seen as the paramount driving force to change. This paper presents insights in consumer decision-making toward fresh meat and pork consumption in Belgium. It also sets forth implications and recommendations for future pork production given the increasingly stringent safety-related demand...

Food Safety and Intertemporally Nonseparable Preferences in U.S. Meat Consumption

A consumer life­cycle demand system is constructed to investigate the presence of ra­ tional habits and effects of food safety information on U.S. meat consumption. Based on previous studies, information on meat recalls and media coverage of food safety events is used to measure consumer perception of meat quality. At quarterly frequen­ cies, U.S. meat demand is found to be intertemporally nons...

Food Safety in the Meat Industry: A Regulatory Quagmire