the adoption of food safety systems (fsss) is of major significance in the food industry, and that approach is especially of more promience in dairy and meat processing firms. in this study the aim was to introduce the factors affecting the probability of adoption of fsss in the dairy and the meat processing plants in aydin, western turkey. it was observed that ten out of twenty-eight dairy bus...

The dairy and meat processing sectors are significant contributors to the Australian economy. It generates employment and export earnings. For example, processed dairy and meat products accounted for 35 per cent of total food exports in 2000. Hence, the growth of the dairy and meat processing sectors is an important issue for Australia. The dairy and meat processing sectors grew annually by 1.4...

This article develops the decomposition of the dynamic Luenberger productivity growth indicator into dynamic technical change, dynamic technical inefficiency change and dynamic scale inefficiency change in the dynamic directional distance function context using Data Envelopment Analysis. These results are used to investigate for the Spanish food processing industry the extent to which dynamic p...

The occurrence of bacteria in the food processing environments plays a key role in food contamination and development of spoilage. Species of the genus Pseudomonas are recognized as major food spoilers and the capability to actually determine spoilage can be species- as well as strain-dependent. In order to improve the taxonomic resolution of 16S rRNA gene amplicons, in this study we used oligo...

conclusions mlva analysis showed that samples obtained from different sources could have similar genetic profile. as a result, administration of penicillin in patients with listeriosis (especially pregnant women) and antibiotic susceptibility test are recommended. the fast and accurate methods such as mlva for tracking of pollution sources of l. monocytogenes are recommended during outbreaks. r...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com 58% of world’s buffalo population. Their slaughter rate is 10.6% with annual meat production of 1.64 million tons [1]. Buffalo meat has registered a growth of 27% in export during the financial year 2012-13 [2]. The buffalo meat sector, therefore is one of the important sectors in Indian economy and shares 31.1% of India’s total meat production [1]....

Background: Foodborne infection caused by EnterotoxigenicEscherichia coli (ETEC) and Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) is one of the major health problems, particularly in the developing countries. Therefore, it is vital to identify the origin of food contamination to plan control strategies efficiently. Method: A tota...