Meat product inspection is one of the procedures adopted more than a century ago to guarantee food quality and safety for consumption. Due to technology and regulation advancement for farming and slaughtering pigs, a change in zoonotic profile attributed to pork has been identified. Thus, a global movement began to establish inspection parameters based on epidemiological risk profiles, culminating in the publication of a new regulation in Brazil in 2018. This normative instruction establishes that slaughterhouses under federal inspection must implement risk-based inspection until 2028. Changes in the inspection system can generate questions and objections on the part of customers and consumer markets. In order to assess microbiological contamination when adopting a risk-based inspection system, the occurrence of Salmonella spp. and the quantification of Enterobacteriaceae and mesophilic aerobic counts were compared in pig carcasses slaughtered under traditional and risk-based inspection systems. A statistical significance reduction was identified regarding the quantification of Enterobacteriaceae (log −0.18 to −1.61 CFU/cm2) and mesophilic aerobic counts (log 4.60 to 3.49 CFU/cm2). The occurrence of Salmonella spp. did not show a significant difference (4% to 5.3%). The results allowed us to conclude that adopting risk-based inspection systems improves food safety through Enterobacteriaceae and mesophilic aerobic counts reduction.
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O Brasil possui considerável importância no cenário global da cadeia de alimentos de origem animal, sendo esta influenciada pela situação política, econômica e social do país. Neste contexto, iniciativas para defesa dos alimentos com base em requisitos internacionais se fazem necessárias para garantir competitividade estratégica em relação aos demais mercados e a saúde de seus consumidores. Atualmente, o Publicly Available Specification (PAS) 96 do governo inglês é uma referência por sua objetividade e simplicidade no tema, com a finalidade de garantir a segurança dos alimentos contra possíveis ataques intencionais. Entretanto, a indústria de alimentos de origem animal apresenta desafios proporcionais à sua complexidade demonstrando a relevância do tema. Este artigo tem o objetivo de apresentar uma releitura do PAS, direcionamentos para implementação de programa de Food Defense com base no documento e sua importância para a cadeia de alimentos de origem animal brasileira.
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