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National food safety risk profile of eggs and egg products
Ben Daughtry, John Sumner, Greg Hooper, Connor Thomas, Tom Grimes, Rowly Horn, Abe Moses, Andrew Pointon
May to October 2004
Project Objectives and Technical Outputs
- Identify public health hazards that enter any point of the food chain for egg and egg products produced in Australia and rank them in terms of risks to the consumer
- Identify hazards of potential high risk where too little information exists for a confident ranking of risk
- Identify potential management strategies for the identified hazards
- Identify areas where further information may be required to effectively assess or manage (potentially) significant risks
- Identify product:pathogen combinations in which further risk analysis might be performed
Outcomes
- Results to be used by Australian Egg Corporation Limited (AECL) to inform policy, standards and R&D priority development
- Health jurisdictions at state and federal level involved in consultative process between risk assessors and managers – some high risk areas identified already being regulated
An egg: Salmonella quantitative risk assessment model for the Australian egg industry
Connor Thomas, Ben Daughtry, David Padula, David Jordan, George Arzey, Ken Davey, Geoff Holds, Jo Slade, Andrew Pointon
2002 to 2004
Project Objectives and Technical Outputs
- Development of a quantitative risk assessment model for Salmonella in the Australian shell egg and egg pulp industry environment
- Provide a scientific basis for definition of critical control points from the point of lay, through transportation, processing and packaging and retail storage
- Assist the industry in defining R&D priorities, devising alternative control measures, evaluating processing systems and relating public health outbreaks to industry performance and practices
- Assist in predicition of risk associated with establishment of Salmonella enteritidis in Australian layer flocks and appropriate control measures.
Outcomes
Potential priorities:
- Review shelf life/ use by dates
- Review pasteurisation standards
- Evaluate risk associated with non-cage production system
