Background: Salmonella is the most frequently reported cause of food borne illness in Ethiopia. Objective: The aim of this study was to screen food handlers in the Dilla area of Southern Ethiopia and to assess the scale of carriage of Salmonella species and to offer prophylaxis followed by re-testing and advice on personal and food hygiene as appropriate. Method: Stool samples were collected fr...

Not all street food vendors understand the packaging and safety aspects. This can be seen from observations of handler in ecotourism Bendhung Lepen’s food, Yogyakarta. Though both them are important aspects to consider order produce safe food. Therefore, education is needed with aim increase knowledge skills community, especially vendors, practicing good product implementing safety.This empower...

To provide useful information on how to moderate posthandling stress, the attractiveness of different conditions to beef cattle just after release from restraint was determined. Angus heifers were individually allowed to enter a choice area after 2 min of restraint in a squeeze chute and to choose between 2 pens. After the heifer had chosen a pen, it could freely access both test pens and the c...

The Message Handler extracts critical intelligence information from the free-text of military messages to merge with the data'parsed from fixed-fields. In the third of four project phases, the current focus is on developing stand-alone capabilities demonstrating the viability of natural language processing in Advance Concept Technology Demonstrations (ACTDs), and to operational users at militar...

The task of measuring the effectiveness of food worker training has historically met with many challenges. This paper considers various approaches and utilizes trends in foodborne-outbreak contributing factors to evaluate a recent change in Florida's food worker training. Results show that subsequent to training, the relative incidence of many factors that contribute to foodborne outbreaks actu...

The present study was designed to determine whether reactivity toward humans can be used to predict a pig's reactivity to the slaughter procedure as measured by postmortem muscle metabolism. Forty-two pigs were group-reared in six pens with straw-bedding. Pigs received regular positive (HI) or mildly negative (RC) handling training in a separate pen for 40 d before slaughter. Control pigs remai...