商品簡介
Preharvest Food Safety provides an overview of the pre-harvest food safety problem in a variety of agricultural sectors, focusing on the impact of primary production practices and interventions on preventing foodborne disease. The editors take a holistic approach that treats production agriculture as a system with complex interactions between the environment, microbes, and food, interactions that are largely driven by ecological considerations and the actions of humans and animals. The book begins with an overview of the current issues associated with pre-harvest food safety for each major commodity group, with individual chapters on produce, red meat, poultry and eggs, milk and dairy, grains and nuts, seafood, and the importance of water for food safety. Each chapter will include what is known about the source, prevalence and transmission of pathogens, currently used control measures, and critical data gaps for the development of future targeted controls. The book next focuses on emerging issues that impact pre-harvest food safety, including the use of antimicrobials in the food animal industry, the potential impact of global climate change on the emergence and transmission of foodborne pathogens, the growth and challenges of the organic production system, the evolution of animal viruses for potential cross-species infections, and parasitic protozoa as an emerging food safety problem. The book ends with information on emerging solutions and novel intervention methods that can be employed at the pre harvest level to reduce the burden of foodborne pathogens. Intended for food safety research scientists, federal and state regulators, food industry professionals at the production level; consultants and food industry professionals specializing in developing and monitoring HACCP or testing programs.
