Poultry production faces many challenges. This collection starts by reviewing safety, including detection, prevention and control of zoonoses in poultry flocks. It also discusses key aspects of quality such as meat flavour as well wider issues such as the environmental impact of poultry production.
Hinton, Arthur: - Dr. Arthur Hinton, Jr. is the current Research Leader of the Poultry Microbiological Safety and Processing Research Unit of the U. S. Poultry National Research Center of the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) in Athens, Georgia. He has authored over 284 scientific publications, including 90 refereed journal articles and 3 patents. Dr. Hinton has served on the editorial board of the Journal of Food Protection and is a member of the Review Board of the Journal of Applied Poultry Research as well as a member of several professional scientific organizations. Dr. Hinton's current research focuses on reducing the number of human foodborne illnesses associated with contaminated poultry by reducing microbial contamination of poultry during production and processing operations. His research involves the study of physical, chemical, and biological interventions to reduce or eliminate the presence of human foodborne pathogens and indicator microorganisms in live poultry and on processed poultry carcasses.
Rajashekara, Gireesh: - Dr Rajashekara major interests include pre-harvest control of bacterial zoonoses, specifically, Salmonella and Campylobacter and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) mitigation. His research is focused on defining the epidemiology and ecology of these pathogens in food animals, water and environment; understanding the epidemiology and emergence of AMR in food animal production; understanding molecular mechanisms of how these zoonotic pathogens interact with food animals as well as fresh produce; and developing novel diagnostics vaccines, therapeutics, and antibiotic alternative approaches for preharvest and postharvest control of these zoonotic pathogens and mitigation of AMR.
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Dr. Steven C. Ricke is the Director of the Center for Food Safety at the University of Arkansas (UA) and is a faculty member of the Dept. of Food Science and Cellular and Molecular Graduate program. He received the Poultry Sci. Assoc. (PSA) Research Award in 1999, American Egg Board award in 2006 and the PSA Evonik Award for Achievement in Poultry Science in 2019. He was honored as a Texas Agricultural Experiment Station Faculty Fellow in 2002 and the Division of Agriculture - UA John White Outstanding Research Award in 2012. He served as co-founder and former President of the Arkansas Association of Food Protection (AAFP). He was named an AAFP Fellow in 2015, a PSA Fellow in 2017, an International for Food Protection Fellow and University of Wisconsin College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Distinguished Alumni in 2019. He was selected as an American Society for Microbiology Distinguished Lecturer and served from 2015 to 2017.
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Vandeplas, Sabrina: - Sabrina Vandeplas graduated as Chemical and Bio-industrial Engineer from the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium) in 2000. She also holds a Master Degree in Animal Experimentation and a PhD in Agricultural Science and Biological Engineering (Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, University of Liège, Belgium). She worked at Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech for almost 10 years as a Research Assistant on the development of nutritional solutions to fight against zoonotic pathogens in broilers chickens. She focused especially on probiotic- and enzyme-based additives and optimized diet formulations to target Campylobacter sp. and Salmonella sp. at the intestinal and environmental levels. After her PhD, she spent 4 years as Product Manager dedicated to technical support and development of enzyme solutions in animal feed at Puratos NV. Sabrina joined Adisseo France SAS in 2014 as Expert in Raw Materials and NIRS. Her research activities cover every species and deal with innovation projects in the frame of emerging raw materials.
