Background: Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) is a transmissible, fatal neurodegenerative disease of cattle. Recognised in 1986, the disease causes a spongiform degeneration of the neural network in the brain and spinal cord of infected cattle leading to incoordination, atax...
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Background: Seed sprouts contaminated with pathogenic microorganisms, such as Salmonella spp. and Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) present an unacceptable health risk to consumers. An outbreak that occurred in Australia during 2005 and 2006 due to the consumption of...
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Hong Jin, Lateef Adewoye, Eleonora Dupouy, Jun Cheng Er, Frank Geraghty, William K. Hallman, Marion Healy, YiFan Jiang, Elizabeth de Leon-Lim, Clare Narrod & Amy Philpott·European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety·2023
This paper describes the principles and practices of effective food safety risk communication developed under the “Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Food Safety Risk Communication Framework and Associated Guidelines”. The framework recommends that effective food safety risk commu...
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Research Article10.9734/ejnfs/2023/v15i81324