Food Safety: Page 5

Dawn Lynch to lead House of Raeford food safety team

She is a 21-year employee with the company, having previously worked for Wayne Farms

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3 future chicken consumption trends to watch

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3 future chicken consumption trends to watch

Campylobacter control in poultry is still a mystery

Campylobacter is the leading causes of foodborne illnesses in humans in the U.S., however there is still much to learn before effective preharvest control of the pathogen in poultry can occur.

Approximately four out of every five instances of Campylobacter in people results from handling and eating contaminated chicken meat. (Katarzyna Bialasiewicz | Dreamstime.com)

Poultry Tech Trends

Cannabis microarray could improve food safety in poultry

Elizabeth Doughman: A next generation microarray technology originally developed for the cannabis sector could help the poultry industry better detect and monitor for the presence of Salmonella and other pathogens.

Culture-based methods usually only identify the most abundant serovars of Salmonella. A new method can detect less abundant ones too. (Chansom Pantip | iStock.com)

New Technologies

How X-rays can spot packaged poultry seal issues

The latest generation of X-ray technology offers highly accurate seal breach detection for packaged poultry products.

Detected seal faults around sealed tray. Courtesy Sapphire Inspection Systems.

Rapid Salmonella test could improve food safety in poultry

A new test requires only an hour to detect Salmonella in chicken, eggs and other foods vulnerable to the pathogen, reports a recent paper published in Angewandte Chemie.

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Poultry Around the World

Is eating animal products really healthy?

The benefits of eating products of animal origin are numerous, according to the latest review of scientific literature.

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2 ways technology could transform poultry health

Recent innovations that harness the power of data and next generation sequencing could revolutionize the way poultry producers think about poultry health.

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Poultry Nutrition & Formulation

In ovo probiotics could boost chick immunity before hatch

Injecting eggs with certain probiotics could help promote the gut health and immunocompetence of hatched chicks.

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Processing & Slaughter

How poultry processing can meet new Salmonella standards

Proposed framework from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) designed to improve Salmonella control in poultry would require enhanced establishment monitoring procedures throughout slaughter and processing operations.

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Preharvest Salmonella control in poultry requires patience

Better Salmonella control in poultry production will involve a holistic, multi-pronged strategy that will take time to implement and validate.

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E. coli superbugs found in 40% of retail poultry, meat

Antibiotic use in poultry and other livestock is under scrutiny due to growing antibiotic resistance and consumer concerns. Resistance, when bacteria develop the ability to defeat the drugs designed to kill them, can devastate poultry flocks and affect the livelihood of farmers.

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New Technologies

Mutated Salmonella provokes a bigger poultry immune response

A mutated Salmonella strain caused more severe infections in layer hens, reinforcing the importance of preharvest interventions against the foodborne pathogen.

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