NEW ZEALAND: Additions to Campylobacter strategy - (Scoop)
September 14, 2007 – 6:21 pmPress Release: New Zealand Food Safety Authority
NZFSA announces additions to Campylobacter strategy
The New Zealand Food Safety Authority’s updated Campylobacter in Poultry Risk Management Strategy identifies some stringent additions that it anticipates will lead to significant reductions in this country’s high levels of human campylobacteriosis.
Together with the poultry industry, NZFSA will introduce an interim performance target that aims to see human cases of foodborne campylobacteriosis fall by 50 percent over the next five years.
This approach seeks to encourage the greatest reductions in bacteria numbers as early as possible in the processing food chain. The interim performance target that the poultry industry has agreed to meet represents a 90 percent reduction in current contamination levels and will be mandated from 1 April 2008. This time lag will allow industry sufficient time to put the necessary changes to production systems in place, and introduce new food safety technologies.
With the support of the poultry […]
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