Current applications of machine vision in agriculture are briefly reviewed. The requirements and recent developments of hardware and software for machine vision systems are discussed, with emphases on multispectral and hyperspectral imaging for modern food inspection. Examples of applications for detection of disease, defects, and contamination on poultry carcasses and apples are also given. Fu...

A severe and fatal outbreak of Tetrameres fissispina in four flocks of local chickens in Nigeria is being described. The outbreak was characterized by sudden and massive death and pathology mimicking avian influenza. Convention tests for major viral and bacterial diseases of poultry in Nigeria were all negative. T. fissispina was isolated from most carcasses submitted for post mortem examinatio...

Campylobacter infection is the leading foodborne bacterial gastroenteritis worldwide and the bacteria are frequently isolated from the intestines of chickens. The broiler meat contamination with C. jejuni or C. coli may occur during slaughter processing. The aim of the study was to investigate the prevalence of Campylobacter in poultry flocks and the corresponding broiler carcasses in 15 distri...

The purpose of this study was to analyze and compare antimicrobial resistance in Campylobacter spp. isolated from pork and poultry carcasses, and pork and poultry meat (at slaughterhouse level, during meat cutting, and at retail) in Belgium, using available surveillance data over the period 2004-2009. The susceptibilities of 1724 Campylobacter isolates for ampicillin, ciprofloxacin, nalidixic a...

Food-borne diseases are the main problem particularly in developing countries and cause the majority of illness and death around the World. Food is the most important vehicle that transmits microorganisms to human (Vernam, 1991). Among these micro-organisms salmonellae still a major cause of food-borne human diseases (Soultose et al., 2003; Carraminana et al., 2004). Poultry and poultry product...

A hyperspectral imaging system was developed to detect surface contaminants on poultry carcasses. The system consists of a transportable stand, two quartz halogen line lights, a prism-grating-prism imaging spectrograph connected to a 1280x1024 pixel silicon CCD camera, and a computer with a frame-grabber card. The imaging system is capable of collecting spectral reflectance information from 430...

Genetically featherless and feathered broiler siblings were used to test the contribution of feathers and feather follicles to the numbers of aerobic bacteria, Escherichia coli, and Campylobacter in whole-carcass rinse samples taken immediately after carcasses were defeathered for 30 or 60 s. Numbers of spoilage bacteria were counted after the same fully processed carcasses were stored for 1 wk...