This manual consists of 47 pages and discussed important topics that includes attributes determining consumers preference and behaviour, germs that cause milk spoilage and diseases, hygienic milk handling, storage and transportation, cleaning of milk utensils, personal hygiene, basic tests for milk ...

Safe food is needed for everybody, from growing children and adolescents to pregnant women and older adults. Unsafe food and water are linked to the deaths of an estimated 2 million people annually including many children. Food safety is becoming increasingly important in the context of changing...

This work describes the dairy value chain and potential entry points of food safety hazards at post-harvest nodes of the value chain in Kenya. The specific topics include milk production, transport, bulking and cooling, processing, marketing, distribution, demand, consumption, post-harvest losses,...

This manual contains information for dairy farmers in Assam, India, including different breeds and breeding systems, housing and manure management, daily management of different categories of dairy animals, nutrition for improved productivity, reproductive health management, common diseases of...

This work describes the characteristics of livestock factory farming systems and the increased risk of the emergence of antibiotic resistant pathogens, including antibiotic overuse, animal welfare, environmental contamination by pathogens, human health risks of factory farming, the effect of...

This article describes effects of drug administration on hen eggs, including how the formation and composition of eggs relate to drug deposition, the legal obligations concerning the use of medicines in chickens, practical problems relating to prescribing for backyard hens and how to interpret...

As a preliminary step in the Pull-Push project, this study was carried out to document the awareness, practices and perceptions of stakeholders along poultry and vegetable value chains. Issues covered included food safety, sanitary quality and hygiene of products consumed in the city of...

In Singapore during 2015, Group B Streptococcus (GBS) sequence type 283 (ST283) caused the only reported foodborne outbreak of invasive GBS disease. Over 20 percent of cases were healthy adults without comorbidities, which is unusual for GBS. The outbreak was linked to the consumption of raw...

This reporting manual provides guidance for reporting on zoonoses and zoonotic agents in animals, food and feed under the framework of Directive 2003/99/EC. Instruction is also provided on the reporting of other pathogenic microbiological agents in food. The objective is to harmonise and streamline ...

This report unveils the true hidden health impacts and costs of industrial livestock systems, which damage our health through multiple and interconnected pathways of impact. They make us ill, drive climate change and biodiversity loss, and cause suffering to billions of farmed animals each year. On ...