Abstract
Microbiological food safety surveillance is a system that collects data regarding food contamination by foodborne pathogens, parasites, viruses, and other harmful microbiological factors. It helps to understand the spectrum of food safety, timely detect food safety hazards, and provide relevant data for food safety supervision, risk assessment, and standards-setting. The study discusses the microbiological surveillance of food safety in China, and introduces the policies and history of the national microbiological surveillance system. In addition, the function and duties of different organizations and institutions are provided in this work, as well as the generation and content of the surveillance plan, quality control, database, and achievement of the microbiological surveillance of food safety in China.
Highlights
Food safety is one of the most important concerns of humans, and closely related to health, economic development, and social stability [1]
Development of the microbiological surveillance system of food safety in China has passed through two stages
Campylobacter jejuni is one of the world’s most important food poisoning pathogens [14], there has been relatively little data collected about the incidence of food contamination and foodborne disease because only some laboratories can do the analysis of this pathogen-resulting in very different occurrence rates from 0.5% to 20% in raw chicken meat from various Chinese provinces
Summary
Food safety is one of the most important concerns of humans, and closely related to health, economic development, and social stability [1]. To date, developed countries have shifted the focus of food safety from investigating the cause of foodborne disease outbreaks post-occurrence to proactive detection and prevention of food contamination [2]. To reach this goal, some countries, such as Ireland [3] and the United States [4], have launched food microbiological surveillance programs. It is estimated that 56.1% of food poisoning outbreaks were caused by microorganisms in China in 2012 [5], it is very important to be fully acquainted with food microbiological contamination and control the risk factors to ensure food safety. This paper introduces microbiological surveillance of food safety in China for the first time
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