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Food Safety Program
4-H Veterinary ScienceExtension Veterinary Medicine
Texas AgriLife Extension ServiceCollege of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Science
Texas A&M Systemhttp://aevm.tamu.edu
Objectives
Understand pre-harvest food safety practices Understand post-harvest food safety
practices Understand that surveillance of food animal
production practices protects the food supply
Goa Keep unsafe and unwholesome food items out of food
chain Causes
Disease-producing pathogens Hazardous chemicals Physical materials
Who regulates Livestock producers Poultry producers State government Federal government
Pre-harvest Food Safety
Live animal production Prior to slaughter
Veterinarians Quality Assurance Programs
Involvement Producers Veterinarian
Education Reduce pathogens Proper procedures
Regulatory agencies Transportation
Prevention BQA (Beef Quality Assurance) Pork producers Poultry producers HAACP (Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point)
Inspection
Animal carcasses Visual appraisal
Diseases Abnormalities
Bacteriologic tests Pathogens
Residue tests Drugs Chemicals