Beef abattoir interventions in a risk-based meat safety assurance system

Antic, Dragan ORCID: 0000-0003-1301-2732, Houf, Kurt, Michalopoulou, Eleni ORCID: 0000-0003-2564-3267 and Blagojevic, Bojan (2021) Beef abattoir interventions in a risk-based meat safety assurance system. MEAT SCIENCE, 182. 108622-.

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.meatsci.2021.108622

Abstract

In risk-based meat safety assurance system, the use of interventions is intended to accomplish the meat safety targets on chilled carcasses, particularly in situations when an abattoir is unable to sufficiently reduce risks arising from specific farms/animal batches by using process hygiene alone. Furthermore, interventions are considered whenever food safety authorities identify meat production processes associated with high risks for consumers. This paper overviews the role of beef interventions in a risk-based, meat safety assurance system. Cattle hide interventions (chemical hide washes and microbial immobilisation treatment with shellac) and beef carcass interventions (pasteurisation treatments with hot water and/or steam and organic (lactic) acid washes), show consistent reduction effects of aerobic bacteria and faecal indicators and reduced prevalences of naturally present VTEC and Salmonella. The review also identified interventions where there was a lack of data and further research was needed, and other contextual factors to inform the risk management decisions for further development of risk-based meat safety assurance system.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Meat safety assurance system, Cattle hide, Beef carcass, Interventions, VTEC, Salmonella
Divisions:	Faculty of Health and Life Sciences Faculty of Health and Life Sciences > Institute of Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	12 Jul 2021 15:57
Last Modified:	18 Jan 2023 21:36
DOI:	10.1016/j.meatsci.2021.108622
Open Access URL:	https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/...
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3129756