Risk assessment of Campylobacter spp. in broiler chickens
Subtitle: Interpretative summary
Contributors: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Series: Microbiological risk assessment series -- 11; Microbiological risk assessment series -- 11.
Publisher: World Health Organization; Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Geneva
Language: eng
Number of pages: 35
ISBN-13: 9789241547352; 9789251058787
Subjects: Food Contamination; Health risk assessment; Risk Assessment; Food Handling; Chickens; Microbiology; Analysis; Campylobacter infections in poultry; Pathogenicity; Campylobacter; Methods
Description: Campylobacter is a leading cause of enteric infections in many countries. The principal reservoir of pathogenic Campylobacter spp. is the alimentary tract of wild and domesticated mammals and birds. FAO and WHO have undertaken a risk assessment of Campylobacter spp. in broiler chickens. An interpretative summary of that work is described in this volume. This assessment compared the risk for a variety of scenarios and mitigation measures for control of the organism in a range of broiler chicken products. This volume contains information that is useful to both risk assessors and risk managers, governments and food regulatory agencies, industry and other people or institutions with an interest in Campylobacter spp. in broiler chickens, the public health impact and the use of risk assessment in the evaluation and selection of potential control strategies--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

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Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Scope of the risk assessment; title: Hazard identification; title: Risk assessment model overview; title: Scenario analysis; title: Summary and key findings.