Meat and meat products are produced, packaged and traded globally. As well as being a multi-billion dollar business, they also play a significant role in household food security and poverty alleviation in developing countries.

In helping to protect consumer's health, AGNS' substantive work on the safety of meat and meat products is the provision of scientific advice to Codex Alimentarius and the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Meetings on Microbiological Risk Assessment (JEMRA). The risk assessment of various pathogen-commodity combinations through JEMRA includes:

• Enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) in meat and meat products
• Campylobacter spp. in broiler chickens
• Salmonella in eggs and broiler chickens

See also

Micro-organisms in food > JEMRA > Risk assessments

Codex code of hygienic practice for meat (2005)
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Good practices for the meat industry - Training manual (2004)
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FAO - Animal Production and Health Divison (AGA) - Animal products