background: shell is one of the most important by-products of shrimp processing methods which can potentially pollute the environment, whereas shrimp shell contain large amounts of chitin and chitosan and can be used as immune and growth stimulator in aquaculture. objectives: the purpose of present study was to investigate the effect of oral administration of chitosan extracted from litopenaeus...

Campylobacter jejuni is one of the most frequent causes of bacterial gastrointestinal food-borne infection worldwide. This species is part of the normal flora of the gastrointestinal tracts of animals used for food production, including poultry, which is regarded as the primary source of human Campylobacter infections. The survival and persistence of C. jejuni in food processing environments, e...

Food Science Australia (FSA) has been developing sensing systems that are suitable for use in automating tasks commonly seen in Australian beef and sheep processing plants. This paper shows some of the imaging and profiling technologies and the issues encountered in implementing these systems in operating plants. Combining the sensing systems with tools or end effectors on robots that can assis...

INTRODUCTION Food-borne disease outbreaks remain a major global health challenge and cross-contamination from raw meat due to poor handling is a major cause in developing countries. Adequate knowledge of meat handlers is important in limiting these outbreaks. This study evaluated and compared the safe meat-handling knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) of private (PMPP) and government meat p...

Chlorpyrifos is registered for use in agriculture to control numerous insects on barley, wheat, oats and a wide variety of garden vegetables (Agriculture Canada and Environment Canada 1990; Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada 1997). Nonagricultural uses include the control of insect pests on turf and ornamental plants and in nonfood domestic areas, veterinary clinics, and commercial storage or pro...

Different strains of Listeria monocytogenes are well known to persist in individual food processing plants and to contaminate foods for many years; however, the specific genotypic and phenotypic mechanisms responsible for persistence of these unique strains remain largely unknown. Based on sequences in comK prophage junction fragments, different strains of epidemic clones (ECs), which included ...