In this bonus episode of Food Safety Matters, we speak with Brandon Carter, D.V.M., Food Safety Technical Advisor for Elanco Animal Health, about the importance of pre-harvest diagnostics in food safety risk management.
In this bonus episode of Food Safety Matters, we speak with Dr. Alissa Welsher, Associate Senior Consultant at Elanco Poultry Food Safety, about the importance of pest management to poultry safety; specifically, for the control of darkling beetles, which can be an important source of Salmonella in poultry production operations.
In this bonus episode of Food Safety Matters, we speak with two poultry science experts about what industry can do to reduce the presence of Salmonella in poultry products in light of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) recently proposed requirements that would consider Salmonella an adulterant in poultry.
In this bonus episode of Food Safety Matters, Dr. Alissa Welsher, Associate Senior Consultant at Elanco Poultry Food Safety, discusses why integrated pest management (IPM) is a crucial part of food safety management on farms and in food processing plants, as well as how poultry operations can develop an IPM program and minimize the spread of pathogens and disease from pests.
A continuous improvement approach may be useful for poultry operations aiming to reduce the presence of Salmonella in their flocks, in light of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s initiative that includes increased quantitative microbial monitoring of incoming flocks to processing plants.
In this episode of Food Safety Matters, we speak with Dr. Charles Hofacre, the Principal at The Southern Poultry Research Group, and Dr. Bill Potter, a Food Safety Technical Advisor at Elanco Animal Health, about a multi-hurdle approach to controlling Salmonella in poultry, pre-harvest intervention strategies for pathogen contamination, and USDA’s renewed focus on Salmonella in poultry.
