Preharvest Food Safety (eBook)

Contributors

Preface

Section I. Overview of the Preharvest Food Safety Problem

1. Introduction to Preharvest Food Safety
Mary E. Torrence

2. Preharvest Farming Practices Impacting Fresh Produce Safety
Eduardo Gutierrez-Rodriguez and Achyut Adhikari

3. Preharvest Food Safety Challenges in Beef and Dairy Production
David R. Smith

4. Preharvest Food Safety in Broiler Chicken Production
Walid Q. Alali and Charles L. Hofacre

5. Egg Safety in the Realm of Preharvest Food Safety
Manpreet Singh and Jagpinder Brar

6. Nuts and Grain: Microbiology and Preharvest Contamination Risks
Pardeepinder K. Brar and Michelle D. Danyluk

7. Risks Associated with Fish and Seafood
Sailaja Chintagari, Nicole Hazard, Genevieve Edwards, Ravi Jadeja, and Marlene Janes

8. Water for Agriculture: The Convergence of Sustainability and Safety
Sarah M. Markland, David Ingram, Kalmia E. Kniel, and Manan Sharma

9. Importance of Soil Amendments: Survival of Bacterial Pathogens in Manure and Compost Used as Organic Fertilizers
Manan Sharma and Russell Reynnells

Section II. Emerging Issues in Preharvest Food Safety

10. Reducing Foodborne Pathogen Persistence and Transmission in Animal Production Environments: Challenges and Opportunities
Elaine D. Berry and James E. Wells

11. Emerging Foodborne and Agriculture-Related Viruses
David H. Kingsley

12. Toxoplasma gondii as a Parasite in Food: Analysis and Control
Dolores H. Hill and Jitender P. Dubey

13. Local Foods Systems Food Safety Concerns
Benjamin Chapman and Chris Gunter

14. Preharvest Food Safety Under the Influence of a Changing Climate
Kalmia E. Kniel and Patrick Spanninger

15. Potential for Meta-Analysis in the Realm of Preharvest Food Safety
Jan M. Sargeant and Annette M. O'Connor

Section III. Emerging Solutions to Preharvest Food Safety

16. Phage Therapy Approaches to Reducing Pathogen Persistence and Transmission in Animal Production Environments: Opportunities and Challenges
Anna Colavecchio and Lawrence D. Goodridge

17. Regulatory Issues Associated with Preharvest Food Safety: United States Perspective
Shirley A. Micallef and Robert L. Buchanan

18. Regulatory Issues Associated with Preharvest Food Safety: European Union Perspective
Lis Alban

19. Current Status of the Preharvest Application of Pro- and Prebiotics to Farm Animals to Enhance the Microbial Safety of Animal Products
Rolf D. Joerger and Arpeeta Ganguly

20. Molecular Tools to Study Preharvest Food Safety Challenges
Deepak Kumar and Siddhartha Thakur

21. Mathematical Modeling Tools to Study Preharvest Food Safety
Cristina Lanzas and Shi Chen

22. Understanding the Complexities of Food Safety Using a "One Health" Approach
Kalmia E. Kniel, Deepak Kumar, and Siddhartha Thakur

Index

This collection summarizes current
challenges to preharvest food safety in each agricultural field, identifies
major foodborne pathogens of concern in specific products, and surveys recent
advances in preharvest control measures. The 22 contributions discuss the use
of antimicrobials as growth promotants in the food animal industry, the growth
of the organic production system, bacterial pathogens in compost, phage therapy
approaches to reducing pathogen persistence, preharvest application of
probiotics to farm animals, and molecular tools for studying food safety
challenges.

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