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Jens Kirk Andersen Maarten Nauta Annette Perge Andrea Regina de Oliveira Silva Amy Gassama Sow

Example 4: Example of a Risk Based Microbiological Criterion for food/pathogen with a high prevalent pathogen. Jens Kirk Andersen Maarten Nauta Annette Perge Andrea Regina de Oliveira Silva Amy Gassama Sow Diana Ximena Correa Florencia Antillón Guerrero Niels Nielsen Simone Machado.

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Jens Kirk Andersen Maarten Nauta Annette Perge Andrea Regina de Oliveira Silva Amy Gassama Sow

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  1. Example 4: Example of a Risk Based Microbiological Criterion for food/pathogen with a high prevalent pathogen Jens Kirk Andersen Maarten Nauta Annette Perge Andrea Regina de Oliveira Silva Amy Gassama Sow Diana Ximena Correa Florencia Antillón Guerrero Niels Nielsen Simone Machado

  2. Drafting team: • Colombia • Costa Rica • Denmark • Senegal • ALA

  3. The principle is simple: • Take a sample • Do the testing • Perform a risk assessment on the result • Compare the risk to the avarage (baseline) risk • Acceptability of the food is conditioned on the relative risk

  4. Requirements: • More practical when the pathogen is highly prevalent • A quantitative microbiological risk assessment (QMRA) must be established • Knowledge on the average (base-line) occurrence must be established

  5. Example 4: • Campylobacter in Poultry Example chosen for following reasons: • High prevalence • A QMRA has been established • A quantitative method is developed

  6. The result of the calculation is a relative risk • Decision on acceptability is depending on the relation of the risk to the average risk – the base-line risk • We are not calculating the absolute risk • This way an unforeseen factor, or an underestimated or overestimated effect in the RA-model will be evened out

  7. Purpose The purpose is to contribute to an Appropriate Level of Protection with specific reference to the occurrence of Campylobacter in poultry

  8. Who could implement the criterion? The competent authorities, - but could possibly also be the food business operator.

  9. Product: Broiler carcasses, either fresh or frozen. Organism: Campylobacter spp.

  10. Sampling plan • 20 single samples of neck-skin (or carcasss/rinsage) are sampled. At least 10 grams of neck-skin should be collected.

  11. Analytical Method • Each sample is homogenized and 10-fold dilutions are prepared and tested quantitatively for Campylobacter spp. according to ISO 10272-2 • (Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs -- Horizontal method for detection and enumeration of Campylobacter spp. -- Part 2: Colony-count technique).

  12. Interpretation of results:

  13. Limit of acceptance • Relative risk = 10 • This is strictly a risk management decision!

  14. Action in case of non-compliance: • Option 1: The batch is rejected for human consumption, and withdrawn. • Option 2: The batch is be subjected to heat treatment. • Option 3: The batch may be subjected to decontamination. The acceptable effect of decontamination may be defined, i.e. a 2 log reduction.

  15. Thank you for your attention!

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