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Risk assessment of Campylobacter spp. in broiler chickens and Vibrio spp. in seafood

Report of a Joint FAO/WHO Expert - Consultation - Bangkok, Thailand 9 August 2002

Year of publication 2003

Pages 59 p.

Author Nutrition Division

Product type Book (stand-alone)

Series title FAO Food and Nutrition Paper

Series number 0254-4725|1014-2908

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) convened an expert consultation on “Risk assessment of Campylobacter spp. In broiler chickens and Vibrio spp. in seafood” in the FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (RAP), Bangkok, Thailand on 5 - 9 August 2002. The list of participants is presented in Annex 1. Mr Dong Qingsong, FAO Deputy Regional Representative for Asia and the Pacific and Officer-in-charge, RAP, opened the meetin g on behalf of the two sponsoring organizations. In welcoming the participants Mr Qingsong noted the increasing significance of microbiological hazards in relation to food safety. He noted that international trade had amplified the opportunity for these hazards to be disseminated from the original point of production to locations thousands of miles away, thereby permitting such food safety hazards to impact on public health and trade in more than one country. Mr Qingsong observed that this under lined the need to first consider microbiological hazards at the international level and provide the means by which they can then be addressed at regional and national levels. He highlighted the commitment of FAO and WHO to provide a neutral international forum to consider new approaches to achieving food safety, and in particular to address microbiological risk assessment.

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