Development of an automated poultry inspection system that is low-cost, operates with minimum human intervention, and is able to maintain its accuracy is important to the U.S. Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) and the poultry industry. Such a system, placed strategically in the processing plants, would help improve the inspection speed, minimize problems of human error and variability, ...

Since the visual appearance of food and other biological products is a major factor in the judgment of quality, visual inspection is an important part of quality control in these industries. This inspection has historically been performed by use of the only “tool” available, the human eye. The processaccompanying data acquisition, automatic evaluation and direct control of the ambient condition...

Restaurant inspection reports are an important source of information for the public to evaluate food safety practices at restaurants. This study examined the effect of information source and message style on consumer responses to restaurant inspection reports. The study employed a three (Information source: local health department, newspaper or consumer blog) x three (Message style: numeric, le...

In this work a machine-vision system for inspection (VSI) is presented whose capabilities are able to detect seaming defects in metal cans for fishing food. Conventional method for quality inspection of seaming for cans, and their main dimensional features, are firstly shown. Then, the structure and algorithms for VSI are proposed for this application. This VSI is currently mounted over a conve...

STEVEN J. LEHOTAY U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Eastern Regional Research Center, 600 East Mermaid Ln, Wyndmoor, PA 19038 ANDRÉ DE KOK, MAURICE HIEMSTRA, and PETER VAN BODEGRAVEN Dutch Food and Consumer Products Safety Authority–Food Inspection Service (VWA-KvW), Region North West, Research and Development Department, Pesticide Analysis Group, Hoogte Kadijk 401,...

1Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immunomediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Rome, Italy 2Lab. of Zoology, Department of Ecology, The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Frederiksberg, Denmark 3Centre for Food-borne and Animal Parasitology, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Saskatoon, Canada 4UMR BIPAR INRA AFSSA ENVA UPVM, Maisons-Alfort, France 5Parasitologie, Hopi...

a U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Eastern Regional Research Center, Microbial Food Safety Research Unit, 600 East Mermaid Lane, Wyndmoor, PA 19038, USA b U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food Safety and Inspection Service, 14th and Independence S.W., Washington, DC 20250, USA c Tasmanian Institute of Agricultural Research, School of Agricultural Science, University...

The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is amending the Federal meat inspection regulations to prohibit the use of penetrative captive bolt stunning devices that deliberately inject air into the cranial cavity of cattle. This rulemaking responds to the findings of a risk assessment on bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) conducted by the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis (referred to as ...

BRADLEY J. SINCLAIR, SCOTT E. BROOKS & JEFFREY M. CUMMING Entomology, Ontario Plant Laboratories, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, K.W. Neatby Bldg., C.E.F., 960 Carling Ave., Ottawa, ON, Canada K1A 0C6 ([email protected]) Invertebrate Biodiversity, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, K.W. Neatby Bldg., C.E.F., 960 Carling Ave., Ottawa, ON, Canada K1A 0C6 ([email protected], cummingjm@ag...