Introduction Following the so called ‘Dioxin crisis’, which took place in spring 1999 in Belgium due to the introduction of some Aroclor 1260 oil in recycling centers used as fat collecting units for animal feeding-stuffs processing, several monitoring campaigns have been carried out in order to implement a continuous control of food-stuffs quality. Many different matrices, such as milk, eggs, ...

In tracing the source of an outbreak of food-poisoning with Salmonella virchow a chicken-packing station and associated rearing farms were investigated. The serotype was found in chickens in 9 of the 14 rearing farms investigated and in the hatchery, but not in the breeding flocks supplying the hatchery. Several personnel on the farms were affected. The infection was most likely to have been in...

(2) (3) These are not presented in the form of practical allowances. Hence, in practice, safety margins will be allowed to take account of such factors as variations in availability of nutrients in different samples of feeding-stuffs, possible losses during manufacture and storage of food, breed and individuality of animals, environmental circumstances and standards of husbandry. livestock has ...

D. H. M. JOYNSON AND C. H. L. HOWELLS (Public Health Laboratory, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff) Samples of animal feeding stuffs were examined for the presence of Gram-negative, lactosefermenting organisms (hereafter called coliforms) and the antibiotic resistance of any strain isolated was determined. Coliforms were found in 13% of all the feeds examined and of these organisms 64-4% we...