Tracking emerging zoonotic pathogens from farm to fork

Duffy, Geraldine; Lynch, Orla; Cagney, Claire

doi:10.1016/j.meatsci.2007.05.023

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“…In addition, there are no current Lebanese governmental microbial performance criteria and surveillance systems for red meat as have been developed in the US and EU [23][24][25]. In particular, health risk assessment involves four analytical steps consisting of hazard identification followed by characterization of the hazard, human and animal exposure, and quantitative characterization of the risk of adverse effects, and all four steps are important preludes to decision making [26] and programmatic development.…”

Section: Discussion Elevated Microbial Counts Present In Beirut Locationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Animal Health and Farm Certificationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Standardized, attentive and complete animal nutrition, husbandry and veterinary preventative care practices can go a long way towards alleviating animal stress and disease [23,24], including subclinical and/ or asymptomatic infection or carcass population with microbes that might be disadvantageous for human and animal health. Practices to avoid might include persistent subclinical antibiotic treatment which allows most food animals to exhibit faster and higher feed conversion rates thus becoming more productive more quickly, but which also predisposes them towards carrying antibiotic-resistant strains of different bacterial populations [20,23]. Regular deworming of food animals might decrease levels of parasitism observed in animals coming to slaughter, including those species that are infectious to humans such as Taenia saginata in cattle (and sometimes sheep and goats) for which humans are a definitive host, and Taenia ovis in sheep muscle, Taenia hydatigena in liver and Taenia multiceps of the muscle, brain, subcutis and eye, especially [36,37].…”

Section: Animal Health and Farm Certificationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Hot or pre chilled carcasses are those that have not undergone chilling to slow microbial reproduction and, when performed in a controlled fashion, to shift microbial populations on chilled carcasses as a function of aging muscle into meat [17,24,23,30]. The presence of bacterial counts on raw muscle from pre chilled carcasses is reflective of meat safety slaughter process hygiene [23,24].…”

Section: Relationship Between Current Practices Muscle Microbial Popmentioning

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Microbiome Populations in Lebanese Slaughterhouse Settings

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“…Risk assessment approaches addressing microbial transfers from farm environments have tended to focus on the 'farm-to-fork' pathway of exposure (e.g. Havelaar et al, 2007;Duffy et al, 2008), with approaches for assessing the risk of microbial impairment of watercourses at the farm level remaining largely undeveloped. Yet the current trend suggests that human illness through environmental exposure to pathogens is increasing because the control of microbial transmission in farm enterprises is more difficult relative to food manufacturing systems (Strachan et al, 2006).…”

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A cross-disciplinary toolkit to assess the risk of faecal indicator loss from grassland farm systems to surface waters

Oliver

Fish

Hodgson³

et al. 2009

Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment

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Diffuse microbial pollution from agriculture is a key contributor to water quality impairment.Reducing the risk of microbial contamination of watercourses from agricultural sources requires both environmentally appropriate and socially acceptable mitigation and management approaches. A cross-disciplinary toolkit for on-farm microbial risk assessment is presented that can represent both social and environmental factors promoting or preventing the accumulation of faecal indicator organisms (FIOs) within the farm environment, and also their subsequent transfer to watercourses. Four key risk criteria were identified as governing FIO loss from land to water. These were 'accumulating E. coli burden to land', 'landscape transfer potential', 'infrastructure' and 'social and economical obstacles to taking action'. The toolkit can be used to determine (i) the relative risk of a farm enterprise contributing to microbial watercourse pollution and (ii) appropriate and targeted mitigation to reduce the risk of FIO loss from land to water. A comparison of the toolkit output with microbiological water quality draining from three contrasting grassland farm enterprises provided a preliminary evaluation of the prototype approach. When applied to 31 grassland farm enterprises the toolkit suggested that 0% were categorised as negligible risk, 32% low, 65% medium, 3% high and 0% very high risk. Such qualitative risk-based tools can assist the policy community not only to target high risk areas, but also to develop mitigation strategies that are sensitive to the different ways in which risk is produced. Capacity for long-term cross-disciplinary research is argued to be the means by which these integrated and more sustainable solutions may emerge.

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A Framework to Define the Impact of Sustainable ICT for Agriculture Projects: The Namibian Livestock Traceability System

Prinsloo

Villiers

2017

E J Info Sys Dev Countries

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Namibia expanded its livestock traceability system to include data of the Northern communal farmers, with ear-tagging starting in 2010, and full functionality added in 2014. The new technology enables them to export safe meat products to previously-excluded overseas markets. In this article, the complexities of a livestock traceability system are explained to provide one with a sense of the lengths countries like Namibia went through to successfully implement such a system. Next, a new framework is proposed to apply to agricultural development projects, called the Impact-for-sustainable agriculture framework, with all the facets of the framework explained. Finally, the framework is applied to the Namibian Livestock Identification and Traceability System (NamLITS), with the focus on the Northern Communal Areas (NCAs). NamLITS is an example of a successful agricultural development project, and it is hoped that this new framework can be applied to other agricultural initiatives.

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Tracking emerging zoonotic pathogens from farm to fork

Cited by 39 publications

References 66 publications

Microbiome Populations in Lebanese Slaughterhouse Settings

Microbiome Populations in Lebanese Slaughterhouse Settings

A cross-disciplinary toolkit to assess the risk of faecal indicator loss from grassland farm systems to surface waters

A Framework to Define the Impact of Sustainable ICT for Agriculture Projects: The Namibian Livestock Traceability System

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