Swedish salmonella control methods introduced in the US

The Swedish way to fight salmonella in poultry has aroused great interest in the United States. The method was recently introduced at the leading American food safety conference, arranged by International Association for Food Protection. Representatives from the US Department of Agriculture have been in Sweden to study the methods in detail.

“Sweden has practically managed to eliminate salmonella from its chicken breeding. Now, we want to find out how we in the US can use parts of the Swedish method to prevent salmonella” says Stan Bailey at USDA.

In North America today, salmonella can be found in 10- 35 % of the chickens. So far, the efforts to fight salmonella have been concentrated to latter parts of the production chain, using heating and radiation. The Swedish principle is that instead of putting efforts into trying to make a polluted product clean, the control points are moved backwards in the production chain, including the egg production site, as well as strong focus on hygiene related matters.

Sweden has today the lowest occurrence of salmonella in the world.      

Source:

Lantbruk - www.lantbruk.com

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