Predictive Microbiology Projects (with SARDI Food Safety Research)
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National food safety risk profile of eggs and egg products
Project leaders: Ben Daughtry, John Sumner, Greg Hooper, Connor Thomas, Tom Grimes, Rowly Horn, Abe Moses, Andrew Pointon
May - Oct 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 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 .
Project Report: Australian Egg Corporation Ltd Downloadable File (1165 kB).
An egg: Salmonella quantitative risk assessment model for the Australian egg industry
Project leaders: Connor Thomas, Ben Daughtry, David Padula, David Jordan, George Arzey, Ken Davey, Geoff Holds, Jo Slade, Andrew Pointon
2002 - 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 prediction of risk associated with establishment of Salmonella Enteritidis in Australian layer flocks and appropriate control measures.
Outcomes
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Potential priorities
- review shelf life/use by dates
- review pasteurisation standards
- evaluate risk associated with non-cage production systems
Project Report: Australian Egg Corporation Ltd Downloadable file (669 kb)
