Cows on the Planet

Can we make beef safer and prevent food-borne disease?

Episode Summary

Join Dr. Todd Callaway as he discusses the best ways to protect yourself at home from food-borne disease, some BBQing advice as well as challenges and promising technology for controlling pathogens in live cattle and after slaughter.

Episode Notes

Citation

Callaway, T. R., Carroll, J. A., Arthington, J. D., Edrington, T. S., Anderson, R. C., Rossman, M. L., Carr, M. A., Genovese, K. J., Ricke, S. C., Crandall, P., & Nisbet, D. J. (2011). Orange Peel Products Can Reduce Salmonella Populations in Ruminants. Foodborne Pathogens and Disease, 8(10), 1071–1075. https://doi.org/10.1089/fpd.2011.0867

Callaway, T. R., Edrington, T. S., Loneragan, G. H., Carr, M. A., & Nisbet, D. J. (n.d.). Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli (STEC) Ecology in Cattle and Management Based Options for Reducing Fecal Shedding. 31.

Callaway, T. R., Edrington, T. S., & Nisbet, D. J. (2014). MEAT SCIENCE AND MUSCLE BIOLOGY SYMPOSIUM: Ecological and dietary impactors of foodborne pathogens and methods to reduce fecal shedding in cattle1,2. Journal of Animal Science, 92(4), 1356–1365. https://doi.org/10.2527/jas.2013-7308

Escarcha, J. F., Callaway, T. R., Byrd, J. A., Miller, D. N., Edrington, T. S., Anderson, R. C., & Nisbet, D. J. (2012). Effects of Dietary Alfalfa Inclusion on Salmonella Typhimurium Populations in Growing Layer Chicks. Foodborne Pathogens and Disease, 9(10), 945–951. https://doi.org/10.1089/fpd.2012.1251

Munns, K. D., Selinger, L. B., Stanford, K., Guan, L., Callaway, T. R., & McAllister, T. A. (2015). Perspectives on Super-Shedding of Escherichia coli O157:H7 by Cattle. Foodborne Pathogens and Disease, 12(2), 89–103. https://doi.org/10.1089/fpd.2014.1829

Sapountzis, P., Segura, A., Desvaux, M., & Forano, E. (2020). An Overview of the Elusive Passenger in the Gastrointestinal Tract of Cattle: The Shiga Toxin Producing Escherichia coli. Microorganisms, 8(6), 877. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms8060877

World Health Organization & Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. (2016). Interventions for the control of non-typhoidal Salmonella spp. in beef and pork: Meeting report and systematic review. World Health Organization. https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/249529