Food safety control measures

USDA (2001) Analysis and Evaluation of Preventive Control Measures for the Control and Reduction/Elimination of Microbial Hazards on Fresh and Fresh-cut Produce. US Food and Drug Administration, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, September 30, 2001. www.cfsan.fda.gov... 

The applicability of GLP to human health and environmental safety testing spells out yet another facet of this delimitation which may give rise to a number of questions. Laboratory testing that is performed in a non safety-related way, e.g. only to ascertain the keeping of certain specification limits, or to analyse for the content of ingredients (e.g. nutrient content of food or feed), need not mandatorily be conducted under GLP, since they are purely quality control measurements, used to assure the conformity of the product, and... 

Preveutiou of salmouella iufectiou, as a bacterial food borne disease, is au issue of public health measures for effective coutrol of food safety, iucludiug food production, processing, distribution, storage and food preparation. Primary prevention is the key strategy to control the incidence of salmonella infection and reduce morbidity and mortality. 

More recently, two major outbreaks of Sahnonelosis occurred in the US related to eaten raw peppers and peanut butter (Maki 2009). These outbreaks underscore the fact that even in advanced countries with strict regulations of food processing and distribution, food borne outbreaks of enteric infections continue to occur. Safety controls should be mainly directed to milk and dairy products, eggs, egg products, poultry, fresh fruits and vegetables. These measures should extent to bacterial contamination of the products during storage and distribution of food to avoid contamination. 

The main themes in this book include antibiotic chemical properties (Chapter 1), pharmacokinetics, metabolism, and distribution (Chapter 2) food safety regulations (Chapter 3) sample preparation (Chapter 4) screening methods (Chapter 5) chemical analysis focused mainly on LC-MS (Chapters 6 and 7), method development and validation (Chapter 8), measurement uncertainty (Chapter 9), and quality assurance and quality control (Chapter 10). 

A number of sensitivity studies have been performed in order to study the influence and effectiveness of preventive measures through the milk chain such as control of pasteurization conditions, analysis at cool storage and inspection at retail. In addition, this smdy will show the relevance of combining predictive and probabilistic modelling for food safety as it allows a more realistic exposure assessment. 

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