EFSA PROPOSES EUROPEAN SALMONELLA TESTING SYSTEM
February 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALLEUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has launched detailed guidelines on new harmonised European Union (EU)-wide tests for detecting antimicrobial resistance to salmonella in fowl, turkeys andpigs, plus campylobacter in broilers. EFSA wants the EU's 27 countries to collect data similarly to help frame andeffective pan-EU strategy to control these diseases, the bane of many meat sectors. In a report, it said resulting information would be especially useful to enable meat industry andfood health risk managers to set up effective pan EU-monitoring ...
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