Shipment of animals, animal products and foodstuffs (for human or animal consumption) by sea and air is economically important. However, the possibilities of pathogen transmission represent a genuine danger, even if veterinary controls are performed continuously. Bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites excreted by animals may contaminate surfaces and are protected by organic matter. Cleaning is ...

We advance the approach initiated by Chawla et al. for sanitizing (census) data so as to preserve the privacy of respondents while simultaneously extracting “useful” statistical information. First, we extend the scope of their techniques to a broad and rich class of distributions, specifically, mixtures of highdimensional balls, spheres, Gaussians, and other “nice” distributions. Second, we ran...

It is well known that antimicrobial resistance represents today a major public health problem, and aside the minimization of the unnecessary prescribing or over prescribing of antibiotics, the investigation of complementary and appropriate infection control procedures represents an interesting therapeutic opportunity. Among the alternative strategies to those involving conventional sanitizing a...

A raw or processed meat product can be a breeding ground for spoilage bacteria ( Enterobacteriaceae, Lactobacillus spp., Pseudomonas etc.). Failure of decontamination results in food quality loss and foodborne illnesses caused by pathogens such as Salmonella, Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus , Listeria monocytogenes . Often, processors decontaminate the carcass using cheap chemicals arti...

With the constant increase in poultry meat consumption worldwide and the large variety of poultry meat products and consumer demand, ensuring the microbial safety of poultry carcasses and cuts is essential. In the present review, we address the bacterial contamination of poultry meat from the slaughtering steps to the use-by-date of the products. The different contamination sources are identifi...

The rapid advances in technology have led to generating and analyzing huge amounts of data in databases. The examples of such kind of data are bank records, web logs, cell phone records and network traffic records. This has raised a new challenge for people i.e., to transform this data into useful information. To achieve this task successfully, data mining is a vital technique. The aim of data ...

The fruit and vegetable industry remains one of Ghana’s most promising agricultural sectors mainly because heightened awareness the health benefits associated with their consumption. However, food safety is ultimate concern due to association foodborne hazards resulting in escalation illness. This report a review key horticultural value chain. study identified risk factors that contaminate frui...