英國計劃概述了沙門氏菌減少

環境,食品和農村事務部(Defra)今天推出了一個谘詢項目為家禽的羊群。歐盟已經設置截止日期是2008年2月,當所有成員國預計將實現了一個減少沙門氏菌控製規劃。沙門氏菌食物中毒的常見原因,會導致嚴重的疾病。Defra旨在減少水平的最重要的兩個菌株,腸炎沙門氏菌和鼠傷寒沙門氏菌,生產水平,以降低汙染事件沿著供應鏈。雖然英國水平中最低的歐洲,兩菌株仍發現8%的控股的羊群。Defra旨在減少這兩種沙門氏菌10%每年在接下來的三年。該計劃提出了這是如何實現的,包括強製采樣和測試要求。2009年,額外的措施還將為持有生效,無論哪種類型的沙門氏菌被發現。雞蛋從羊群證實感染不會被允許出售供人類食用,除非他們已經熱處理。歐盟立法目前每個國家控製規劃提供了一個框架,並概述了生產階段的抽樣和測試必須覆蓋。 The legislation established the details of obligatory sampling and testing in each member state and imposed reduction targets for each country. The UK carried out a nation-wide survey of commercial laying flock holdings during 2004 and 2005 finding that 8 per cent of layer flock holdings in the UK were infected with Salmonella enteritidis or Salmonella typhimurium. Similar surveys took place across all EU member states found a level of 20.4 per cent for the strains. A survey of retail eggs by the Food Standards Agency in 2003 tested 28,518 eggs and found that one in every 290 boxes of six eggs on sale had Salmonella contamination on the shells only.