Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
Quantifying Salmonella and Campylobacter Peri-harvest in Swine
June 23, 2008By Tom Wittum
Salmonella and Campylobacter are estimated to cause 3.9 million illnesses annually in the United States, and most of these illnesses are food-related. Pigs can be sub-clinically infected with these...
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
Enumeration of Salmonella throughout the Pork Harvesting Process
June 15, 2008By Michael Guerini
This project provides comprehensive information on the levels and prevalence of Salmonella on pork carcasses during processing to benchmark the effectiveness of in-plant interventions on Salmonella...
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
Toll-like receptor agonist administration for the prevention of Salmonella colonization of the swine gut
May 20, 2008By Kenneth Genovese
The main objectives of this research project were to determine if the oral administration of certain novel innate (“natural”) immune enhancers would protect piglets against Salmonella...
Pork Safety - Post-Harvest
Microbiological Risk Factors with Moisture Enhanced Fresh Pork
May 15, 2008By James S. Dickson
Fresh pork injected with brines or marinades have become very popular with the consumer. According to a 2004 nationwide retail survey (Anonymous, 2004), 45% of the retail fresh pork in the United...
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
A Diagnostic for Rapid Detection of Pathogenic Listeria monocytogenes as an Indicator of Hygiene on Food Contact and Non-Food Contact Surfaces in the Pork Processing Environment
May 14, 2008By Lawrence Goodridge
During this project, a self contained test was developed, which was capable of rapid detection of Listeria monocytogenes on food contact and non-contact surfaces, as well as on samples of...
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
Investigation linking use of antibiotics in swine and dissemination of antibiotic resistance genes and bacteria in the environment surrounding swine farms
May 12, 2008By Roderick Mackie
Using antibiotics to manipulate the intestinal microbiota to improve growth efficiency raises a number of concerns. First, utilization of broad-spectrum antibiotics inhibits indigenous strains of...
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
Development of Molecular Tools to Assess the Impact of Growth Promotants on Animals and Public Health
March 12, 2008By Richard Isaacson
Antibiotics are frequently used to promote the growth and improve the health of swine. While the reason why antibiotics work as growth promoters is unknown, the leading answer is because the...
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
Risk Assessment for Salmonella spp. in Cooked Pork
December 4, 2007By Arthur Miller
The purpose of this research was to develop a retail-to-table risk assessment to evaluate the likelihood of developing salmonellosis from consumption of a serving of enhanced or un-enhanced pork...
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
Development of Antibiotic Usage Information in Swine
November 2, 2007By John Deen
There exists global concern about the emergence of antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria and their potential relationship to antimicrobial use in food animal production. Despite this, the U.S....
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
Relationship between Antibiotics in Water and Rates of Antimicrobial Resistance Gene Transfer
October 31, 2007By Randall Singer
There is growing concern about the fate of antibiotics and antibiotic residues in the environment. These compounds can potentially select for antibiotic resistant bacteria, and this selection can...
