EFSA SALMONELLA PORK
April 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
MEAT, food production and retail businesses have been advised by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) to adopt high cleanliness standards to prevent the spread of salmonella in pork, which it acknowledges a serious health risk. In new advice, EFSA said: "Pork, after eggs and poultry meat, is a major source of human foodborne salmonellosis in the European Union (EU)". Although it said the exact extent of pork salmonella "is unclear", because of poor data, it said evidence of the problem was strong enough to advise ...
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