Animal welfare and food safety: danger, risk and the distribution of responsibility
Increased animal welfare may pose risks for public health, such as increased bacterial, viral or parasitic infections or an increased level of environmental contaminants in the food product. Examples include Campylobacter in organic boilers, Toxoplasma in pigs and poultry meat and Mycobacterium para...
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ftorgprints:oai:orgprints.org:12253 2023-05-15T15:34:23+02:00 Animal welfare and food safety: danger, risk and the distribution of responsibility Kijlstra, Prof.Dr. Aize Bos, Dr. Bram 2008 application/pdf https://orgprints.org/id/eprint/12253/ en eng /id/eprint/12253/1/12253.pdf Kijlstra, Prof.Dr. Aize and Bos, Dr. Bram (2008) Animal welfare and food safety: danger, risk and the distribution of responsibility. Poster at: Cultivating the Future Based on Science: 2nd Conference of the International Society of Organic Agriculture Research ISOFAR, Modena, Italy, June 18-20, 2008. Health and welfare Conference paper, poster, etc. NonPeerReviewed 2008 ftorgprints 2022-12-11T06:53:48Z Increased animal welfare may pose risks for public health, such as increased bacterial, viral or parasitic infections or an increased level of environmental contaminants in the food product. Examples include Campylobacter in organic boilers, Toxoplasma in pigs and poultry meat and Mycobacterium paratuberculosis in milk. Concerning environmental contaminants it is known that free-foraging laying hens will produce eggs that contain higher dioxin levels than hens kept in cages. Furthermore, outdoor chickens are considered to play an important role in the case of Avian flu outbreaks. This review indicates that it is possible to tackle each of the issues mentioned. Risk management is not only a responsibility of the government, but also should be divided amongst the participants in the food chain, including the consumer. To this end it is important that transparency about risks be maintained and optimal communication employed. Conference Object Avian flu Organic Eprints (Danish Research Centre for Organic Farming, DARCOF) |
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Increased animal welfare may pose risks for public health, such as increased bacterial, viral or parasitic infections or an increased level of environmental contaminants in the food product. Examples include Campylobacter in organic boilers, Toxoplasma in pigs and poultry meat and Mycobacterium paratuberculosis in milk. Concerning environmental contaminants it is known that free-foraging laying hens will produce eggs that contain higher dioxin levels than hens kept in cages. Furthermore, outdoor chickens are considered to play an important role in the case of Avian flu outbreaks. This review indicates that it is possible to tackle each of the issues mentioned. Risk management is not only a responsibility of the government, but also should be divided amongst the participants in the food chain, including the consumer. To this end it is important that transparency about risks be maintained and optimal communication employed. |
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/id/eprint/12253/1/12253.pdf Kijlstra, Prof.Dr. Aize and Bos, Dr. Bram (2008) Animal welfare and food safety: danger, risk and the distribution of responsibility. Poster at: Cultivating the Future Based on Science: 2nd Conference of the International Society of Organic Agriculture Research ISOFAR, Modena, Italy, June 18-20, 2008. |
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