Food Safety Along the Poultry Production Continuum: If We Know So Much (Who, Where, How), Why Are Food Safety Issues Still So Prevalent?

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The University of Arizona Food Safety Consortium is Pleased to Welcome Kelli Hiett, Ph.D. and Michael Rothrock, Ph.D., USDA-ARS Poultry Processing and Swine Physiology Research Unit Athens, GA for a Lunchtime Brown Bag Presentation

Food Safety Along the Poultry Production Continuum: 
If We Know So Much (Who, Where, How), Why Are Food Safety Issues Still So Prevalent?
 

Broiler Chicken Farm Food safety is a huge health, financial and public perception issue for the US poultry industry.  Millions of dollars are being used to research and implement highly effective intervention strategies that work, but food safety continues to present a major problem.  What are we missing? Why, if we are building more effective and efficacious intervention strategies, are food safety issues seemingly more costly and more prevalent?  We will be talking about a novel systems-based, polyphasic approach that we are taking to food safety within the poultry production continuum.  We will present our preliminary data regarding foodborne pathogen ecology within a variety of poultry production environments, and discuss how we think this approach may help us begin to better tackle these tremendous food safety-related issues