Food Safety Program

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Food Safety Program

• 4-H Veterinary Science
• Extension Veterinary Medicine 
• Texas AgriLife Extension Service
• College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical
  Science
• Texas AM System
• http//aevm.tamu.edu

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Objectives

• Understand pre-harvest food safety practices
• Understand post-harvest food safety practices
• Understand that surveillance of food animal
  production practices protects the food supply

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• Goa
• Keep unsafe and unwholesome food items out of
  food chain
• Causes
• Disease-producing pathogens
• Hazardous chemicals
• Physical materials
• Who regulates
• Livestock producers
• Poultry producers
• State government
• Federal government

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Pre-harvest Food Safety

• Live animal production
• Prior to slaughter
• Veterinarians
• Quality Assurance Programs

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• Involvement
• Producers
• Veterinarian
• Education
• Reduce pathogens
• Proper procedures
• Regulatory agencies
• Transportation
• Prevention
• BQA (Beef Quality Assurance)?
• Pork producers
• Poultry producers
• HAACP (Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point)?

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Post-Harvest Food Safety

• Slaughtering and processing food animals
• Processing milk and eggs

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• Sanitation is the key
• Proper labeling how to handle foodstuffs
• Use HAACP

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Inspection

• Animal carcasses
• Visual appraisal
• Diseases
• Abnormalities
• Bacteriologic tests
• Pathogens
• Residue tests
• Drugs
• Chemicals

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Swollen Lymph Node on the Outside of a Dairy Cow
Due to Malignant Lymphoma
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Malignant Lymphoma Tumors on the Heart
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Poultry Processing
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• Eggs
• Pathogens
• Milk
• Drugs
• Somatic Cells (blood)?
• Bacteria

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• Cattle
• Process 350-400 head/hour
• Poultry
• Eggs 6000 cases/day

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Agencies Involved

• FDA Food and Drug Administration
• USDA-FSIS Food Safety Inspection Services
• USDA-APHIS Animal and Plant Health Inspection
  Service
• DSHS Department of State Health Services