Food Safety: Emerging Issues, Technologies and Systems

Food Safety: Emerging Issues, Technologies and Systems offers a systems approach to learning how to understand and address some of the major complex issues that have emerged in the food industry. The book is broad in coverage and provides a foundation for a practical understanding in food safety initiatives and safety rules, how to deal with whole-chain traceability issues, handling complex computer systems and data, foodborne pathogen detection, production and processing compliance issues, safety education, and more. Recent scientific industry developments are written by experts in the field and explained in a manner to improve awareness, education and communication of these issues.

Examines effective control measures and molecular techniques for understanding specific pathogensPresents GFSI implementation concepts and issues to aid in implementationDemonstrates how operation processes can achieve a specific level of microbial reduction in food Offers tools for validating microbial data collected during processing to reduce or eliminate microorganisms in foods

Section 1: DEVELOPMENTS IN FOOD SAFETY TRACKING AND TRACEABILITY

1. Global food safety initiative: Implementation and perspectives

2. Computer systems for whole-chain traceability in beef production systems

3. Foodborne pathogen tracking in the produce environment

4. Application of molecular methods for bacterial traceability in food safety systems

5. A descriptive tool for tracing microbiological contaminations

6. Salmonella and the Potential Role for Microbial Process Indicators on Chicken Carcasses

Section 2: NEW STRATEGIES FOR STUDYING FOODBORNE PATHOGEN ECOLOGY

7. Strategies for understanding Salmonella ecology in food production

8. Listeria and omics approaches for understanding its biology

9. Current issues in foodborne Staphylococcus ecology

10. Shiga Toxin-Producing E. coli and ruminant diets: a match made in heaven?

11. Current perspectives on Campylobacter ecology

12. Arcobacter species- an emerging or emerged food pathogen?

13. The Cronobacter genus – an emergent bacterial pathogen comes of age in the genomic era

14. New and Emerging Food Pathogens

Section 3: NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN FOOD SAFETY EDUCATION – FOOD SYSTEMS AND TRAINING

15. Food Safety at Farmers Markets: Fact or Fiction?

16. Novel Approaches for Retail Food Safety Education

17. Approaches to Food Safety Education Among Critical Groups

18. The role of training strategies in food safety performance: Knowledge, behavior and management

19. Teaching Gastrointestinal Microbiology to a Food Safety Audience

20. Systems thinking and beef cattle production medicine – Issues of health and production efficiency

21. Food safety training and teaching in UK/Europe