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SafeGuard. Work package 2.2A Support tool for advisory organizations in the agricultural and food industries
Project
Project code: keine Angabe
Contract period: 01.01.2008
- 31.12.2013
Purpose of research: Applied research
One of the goals of this project was to develop a support tool for rapid
identification of risk profiles for individual operations raising animals for food.
Due to the large need for advice, the tool currently only deals with the salmonella
problem in pigs. This online-based tool is designed for the green side such that it
detects the risk potential in agricultural operations for the spread of salmonella,
calculating the specific risk assessment for individual operations. In additions,
farmers receive a weighted list of defects specifically for their operations,
together with recommendations and/or suggestions for improvements. For a
field test in 35 German operations, stock with a high salmonella risk (Cat. 3),
stock with a medium salmonella risk (Cat. 2) and stock with a low salmonella
risk (Cat.1) were included.
On the red side, slaughtering and meat-packing operations are the starting
points for producing safe food. The advising tool developed provides these
operations with an option to identify and improve weak points in all their
production processes and in management. The operations can perform their
own monitoring that supports existing security systems such as HACCP and
QS. Voluntary use of the advising tool results in a better understanding of the
salmonella problem and in higher motivation to improve. This way, economic
losses and regulatory sanctions can be avoided. The use of the advising tool
is also attractive because all food producers can register for free and use the
assessment for their operations.
Section overview
Subjects
- Animal health
- Food Processing
- Communication Sciences
