From 1997 to 1999, the prevalence of Salmonella was assessed at different stages through the pork, poultry, and beef meat production chains. Different dilutions of the initial sample suspension were analyzed to provide a semiquantitative evaluation of Salmonella contamination and to determine the most representative dilution necessary to detect a reduction in prevalence. An average of 300 sampl...

Meat consumption has been shown to be associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk in Western societies; however, epidemiological data are limited on the Korean population. Therefore, we examined the associations between unprocessed meat consumption and CVD incidence in Korea. Data were derived from the Ansung-Ansan cohort (2001-2012), including 9370 adults (40-69 years) without CVD or can...

Using annual serologic surveillance data from all poultry farms in the Netherlands during 2007-2013, we quantified the risk for the introduction of low pathogenicity avian influenza virus (LPAIV) in different types of poultry production farms and putative spatial-environmental risk factors: distance from poultry farms to clay soil, waterways, and wild waterfowl areas. Outdoor-layer, turkey (mea...

D espite the attention being paid to avian influenza and its potential to cause a pandemic among humans, the threat of avian diseases extends well beyond the influenza virus. Of particular interest to poultry producers are foodborne infectious bacteria such as Salmonella and Campylobacter spp., as well as several viruses, including those responsible for causing Exotic Newcastle Disease, avian l...

Increasing international trade in poultry meat presents an opportunity for the global dissemination of poultry disease. However, it would be very unfortunate if expanding world trade resulted in animal diseases being used as unjustified non-tariff trade barriers. For those avian diseases currently listed by the World Organisation for Animal Health, the current evidence suggests that only highly...

The importance of poultry production worldwide is underscored by this statistic: poultry meat represents almost one-third of meat produced and consumed globally. Moreover, egg production, on a weight basis, is almost 80% that of poultry meat production. This was addressed in a previous editorial (Scanes, 2007b). The basis for the increasing importance of poultry worldwide has been research on g...

Consumers are more and more interested in the health aspects of their food. Therefore, it is essential for poultry meat production to be aware of factors affecting poultry meat quality. Furthermore, changes in consumption features and the increasing interest of consumers in value for money products have to be considered. Nutrients in poultry meat may be divided into classes with positive (impro...

India is one of the largest and fastest poultry growing industry currently holding the third position in the world in egg production and poultry meat production has reached about 2.2 million tons per year (Maharana and Tewari, 2011).The Gujarat state is no more exception to this as the poultry population has increased by 12.39% from year 2007 to 2012 (Livestock census, 2012). Poultry meat is co...

Poultry meat is very susceptible to oxidation because of the high concentration of polyunsaturated fatty acids, which negatively affects the quality and nutritional values of chicken meat. Coccidiosis is the most common parasitic disease of poultry. Intending to limit anti-parasites usage in poultry feed and also because of the concerns about antibiotic resistance and residues in poultry produc...