Global Food Safety : Perspectives , Challenges , and Plans

The roles of veterinarians in meeting the challenges of health and welfare of livestock and global food security

Public health and pork: pre-harvest food safety and slaughter perspectives.

Operating conditions for the food industry in general and pork production in particular are changing. The safety and quality of food are attracting increasing concern from the consumer, especially in industrialised countries. This paper describes the impact on the swine industry and on the veterinary profession of the 'farm-to-table' concept and the implementation of hazard analysis and critica...

Indian Medical Mission at Hajj-2016: Mass-Gathering Medicine Perspectives, Challenges, and Opportunities in a Mission Posture

Introduction: Hajj is an annual mass gathering of over 3.5 million pilgrims congregating from 200 countries in the desert climate of Saudi Arabia. Mass gathering medicine at Hajj is challenged by issues of healthcare accessibility, infection control, on-site treatment, referral, evacuation, and response to disasters and public health emergencies. The Indian Medical Mission at H...

Nurses’ Perspectives on Factors Affecting Patient Safety: A Qualitative Study

Patient safety is a global concern that involves all healthcare members, so that achieving a high level safe care is responsibility of all healthcare services, particularly nurses. This qualitative study aimed to describe nurses’ perspectives on factors affecting patient safety. We recruited 32 nurses working in teaching hospitals by purposeful sampling method. Data were collected by semi-struc...

Planning for rapid response to outbreaks of animal diseases transmissible to humans via food.

Planning for rapid response to outbreaks of foodborne zoonoses requires coordination and intersectoral collaboration, making the process inherently complex. Guidance documents have been published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) on the topics of foodborne outbreak investigation, establishing food safety emergency respon...