FACTA Symposium on Salmonella assesses impacts of contamination in slaughterhouses and farms in Brazil

The last day of the FACTA Symposium on Salmonella this Wednesday (19) brought debates on care to avoid contamination at slaughter, in slaughterhouses, care with litter management in aviaries and the important emphasis on a correct monitoring process and biosecurity. The Swedish veterinarian, Martin Wiruep, started the technical work this Wednesday with the theme Feed Factory: prevention, monitoring and control measures. According to him, feed contaminated with Salmonella is an important source of its introduction into animal production. Animals infected with Salmonella are the main source of food-borne infections in humans, he warned. According to him, the prevention and control of Salmonella in feed mills should be based on HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points) principles. The reason is that in all countries there is a continuously high risk of Salmonella being introduced into feed mills, especially from contaminated feed ingredients. The concept of HACCP is to ...