A stochastic quantitative risk assessment (QRA) has been developed to (1) compare the level of infectivity of different TSE agents in animal tissues, (2) estimate the impact of amendments to the list/age for the removal of SRM on residual TSE infectivity ...
A European Union-wide survey on Listeria monocytogenes in selected categories of ready-to-eat food at retail was carried out in 2010-2011. A total of 13 088 products were sampled: 3 053 smoked or gravad fish at sampling and at the end of shelf-life; 3 530 ...
Food-borne diseases caused by food of non-animal origin (FoNAO) contaminated with pathogenic bacteria, viruses and parasites are a major health concern worldwide. The present study was set up as an extensive literature review aimed at evaluating biologica ...
Food-borne diseases caused by food of non-animal origin (FoNAO) contaminated with pathogenic bacteria, viruses and parasites are a major health concern worldwide. The present study was set up as an extensive literature review aimed at evaluating biologica ...
A user-friendly interface has been developed for the QMRA model for Salmonella in pigs developed under grant agreement CFP/EFSA/BIOHAZ/2007/01. Hereto, a stand-alone executable of the code has been generated in which the farm and slaughtering phase have b ...
The Cattle TSE Monitoring Model (C-TSEMM) has been developed to evaluate different Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy (TSE) monitoring regimes in cattle by estimating the trend of the current BSE epidemic within European Member States (MSs). The mode ...