Animal and Egg Production
Food Safety
Content:
- Information describing
the global, national and local importance of food safety and the
importance of producing safe food animals.
- Information explaining
the importance of food safety and quality assurance production practices.
- Information describing
Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points process controls and how the
adoption of these preventative systems by meat, poultry slaughter and egg
processing plants impacts producers.
- Description of HACCP compatible
practices and why they are important to producing a competitive and safe
food animal. These practices include animal or premise identification,
record keeping, quality assurance certification programs, residue
avoidance, zoonotic and human pathogen disease prevention, and maintenance
of good sanitation practices in food animal production, transportation and
marketing.
- Information describing
good animal production and culling practices which prevent zoonotic and
other animal diseases from entering the food supply and promote food
safety.
- Description of quality
assurance certification programs and why it is advantageous for producers
to adopt them.