Management of Safety in the Feed Chain

Management of Safety in the Feed Chain A prerequisite for the production of safe food of animal origin is safe feed. Over the last decades, a series of food safety incidents occurred, taking their origin in feed (BSE agent in meat and bone meal, PCBs/dioxins in fats...

Management of Chemical
Contaminants

INTRODUCTION Food can be the source of a broad range of chemical contaminants and residues of agrochemicals. Some may be present naturally, or they may occur as a result of contamination or processing, or they also may be applied by the agriculture or manufacturing...

The Role of International,
Regional and National
Organizations

INTRODUCTIONStandards appear to be an innate, hard-wired faculty of a living brain. It is demonstrated repeatedly in even nonhuman subjects by virtue of an animal’s ability to make distinctions between ripe and unripe foods, which individual will make the most...

Food Defense

Food Defense DEFINITIONS FOR FOOD DEFENSE AND RELATED TERMSSome working definitions are appropriate to frame the discussions in this article. As a relatively new area of focus within governments and food producers, the terms used to describe protections from...