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Animal feeding and food safety

Year of publication 1998

Pages 45 p.

Author Nutrition Division

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Book (stand-alone)

Series title FAO Food and Nutrition Paper

Series number 0254-4725|1014-2908

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Food production is a complex process, with the ultimate objective of the food industry and food safety regulators being to ensure that food reaching the consumer is safe and wholesome, food generally expected to be safe may become unsafe due to the introduction of hazards during production, processing, storage, transport, or final preparation for consumption. For food derived from animals, the hazard may originate from a number of these and other sources including the consumption by food product ion animals of contaminated food.

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