Food safety: perspective and challenges

Food safety: perspective and challenges

Food Safety is major concern for consumers, food producers, processor and regulatory agencies. It is concerned with ensuring food that is safe or free from disease causing agents such as microorganisms, biological toxins and chemicals form the FARM TO THE TABLE, or throughout the FOOD CHAIN. In the...

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Main Author: Rahmat Ali, Gulam Rusul
Format: Inaugural Lecture
Language:English
Published: 2002
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/1085/
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/1085/1/LG_173_S45_S981_no.52.pdf
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spelling upm-10852016-01-22T09:10:46Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/1085/ Food safety: perspective and challenges Rahmat Ali, Gulam Rusul Food Safety is major concern for consumers, food producers, processor and regulatory agencies. It is concerned with ensuring food that is safe or free from disease causing agents such as microorganisms, biological toxins and chemicals form the FARM TO THE TABLE, or throughout the FOOD CHAIN. In the last decade, incidents of food related disease outbreaks, such as Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD, Febrile Encephalitis (Nipah Virus), Dioxin contamination of animal feeds, Staphylococcus aureus entertoxin in snow-brand milk powder and Influenza virus in poultry (Hong Kong),have caused significant economic losses and attracted a lot of media attention. These outbreaks lead to human illness, deaths, destruction of livestock, closure of farms and processing plants resulting in losses amounting to billion of dollars. 2002-03-23 Inaugural Lecture NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/1085/1/LG_173_S45_S981_no.52.pdf Rahmat Ali, Gulam Rusul (2002) Food safety: perspective and challenges. [Inaugural Lecture]
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description Food Safety is major concern for consumers, food producers, processor and regulatory agencies. It is concerned with ensuring food that is safe or free from disease causing agents such as microorganisms, biological toxins and chemicals form the FARM TO THE TABLE, or throughout the FOOD CHAIN. In the last decade, incidents of food related disease outbreaks, such as Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD, Febrile Encephalitis (Nipah Virus), Dioxin contamination of animal feeds, Staphylococcus aureus entertoxin in snow-brand milk powder and Influenza virus in poultry (Hong Kong),have caused significant economic losses and attracted a lot of media attention. These outbreaks lead to human illness, deaths, destruction of livestock, closure of farms and processing plants resulting in losses amounting to billion of dollars.
format Inaugural Lecture
author Rahmat Ali, Gulam Rusul
spellingShingle Rahmat Ali, Gulam Rusul
Food safety: perspective and challenges
author_facet Rahmat Ali, Gulam Rusul
author_sort Rahmat Ali, Gulam Rusul
title Food safety: perspective and challenges
title_short Food safety: perspective and challenges
title_full Food safety: perspective and challenges
title_fullStr Food safety: perspective and challenges
title_full_unstemmed Food safety: perspective and challenges
title_sort food safety: perspective and challenges
publishDate 2002
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/1085/
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/1085/1/LG_173_S45_S981_no.52.pdf
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