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Meat food safety
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Beran, George W. Department of Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.
Last reviewed:January 2019
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1036/1097-8542.411540
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Practices that are implemented to ensure the quality of meat foods and their products to avoid contamination and foodborne illnesses. Food safety involves the proper handling, preparation, and storage of all foods and must be adhered to throughout the breadth of the food chain, that is, from production to consumption. Meat foods and products derived from meat are particularly prone to contamination, and contaminated meats are major causes of foodborne illnesses in humans. Therefore, meat food safety is necessary to preserve the health of all consumers of meat (Fig. 1). See also: Food; Food engineering; Food manufacturing; Food microbiology; Food poisoning; Food preservation; Food safety and foodborne illness; Food science; Foodborne disease
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