IFT Expert Report on Emerging Microbiological Food Safety Issues Implications for Control in the 21St Century
IFT Expert Report on Emerging Microbiological Food Safety Issues Implications for Control in the 21st Century Microbiological food safety is a complex, fundamental issue policy officials, and other interested groups—of the scientific in- of continuing concern. Contributing to this complexity and formation on emerging foodborne pathogens (from a broad eco- logical perspective) relative to public policy issues and strategies the emergence of food safety issues are ongoing changes in for preventing foodborne illness. demographics, geographic origin of food, food production This report is the second Expert Report produced by IFT and processing, food consumption patterns, and microorgan- since the establishment of its Office of Science, Communica- isms themselves. These host, environmental, and pathogen tions, and Government Relations, which led the production of changes challenge our food safety policies and our ability to this report and the IFT Expert Report on Biotechnology and Foods. In the seven sections of this report, the expert panel fo- manage food safety throughout the food system. cuses on the complexity of emerging foodborne pathogens and factors influencing emergence; manifestation of clinical food- Recognizing this, the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT), borne disease; human susceptibility; ecology of pathogens in the 28,000-member nonprofit society for food science and tech- pre-harvest and post-harvest environments; microbial viru- nology, convened a panel of internationally renowned experts to lence, evolution, selection, adaptation, stress, and driving forces; review the science related to emerging microbiological food safety risk analysis, the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point issues and implications for their control and to produce a com- system, Food Safety Objectives, microbiological performance prehensive, scientific report.
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