Naslov
Foodborne pathogens in illegal iported food samples confiscated at the Croatian borders

Autori
Prukner-Radovcic, Estella ; Kozačinski, Lidija ; Lukač, Maja ; Gutić, Sandra ; Horvatek Tomić, Danijela

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
Book of abstracts, PROMISE Meeting, Hydra / P. Skandamis, S. Manios, N. Kapetanakou - Atena : Agricultural University of Athens, 2014

Skup
PROMISE Meeting, Hydra

Mjesto i datum
Idra, Grčka, 17.06.2014. - 20.06.2014

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Nije recenziran

Ključne riječi
bacteria; illegal import; food of animal origin; Croatian border points; veterinary inspection

Sažetak
Croatian partner, as a part of PROMISE team, has been involved in investigations carried out under the Work package 1 (WP1) - Analysis of neglected exogenous routes of transmission of foodborne pathogens. In order to assess the level of risk to public and animal health of the uncontrolled imported food of animal origin entering into Republic of Croatia, 100 food samples (dry meat products, fresh and frozen meat samples, dairy product and egg samples) were collected at 7 border points between Croatia and third countries, according to the DoW. Confiscated samples were mainly coming from Bosnia (70 samples), China (8 samples), Serbia (5 samples), Macedonia (7 samples), one from Albania and 10 were of unknown origin. The illegal food were mainly designated for personal use, only the samples confiscated in sea port Rijeka were for market. Final destination for 43 samples were Croatia, for 22 were Austria, for 16 were Germany, for 8 samples were Hungary, for 5 were Slovenia, for 2 were Italy and for one was Switzerland. Final destinations for 3 samples were not clear. Regarding category of the product, altogether 15 products belonged to the dairy products (fresh or hard cheese, salty cream), 29 were described as fresh or fresh frozen chicken, pork of beef meat. The majority of samples, in total 48, were dry meat products (sausages, ham, and bacon). The rest of the samples were eggs (3 samples), fish in the can (2 samples) and dehydrated meat noodles from China. The testing of microbiological quality of samples was carried out with specific attention on the determination of presence of foodborne pathogenic bacteria (Salmonella, Listeria, Campylobacter and MDR Escherichia coli). For the bacterial culture techniques, the appropriate ISO methods were chosen. From altogether 100 illegally imported food samples, 24 were negative for bacteria. All examined samples were negative for the presence of the most common pathogenic bacteria as Salmonella sp., Campylobacter sp. and Listeria monocitogenes. Multidrug resistant E. coli was found in only one samples. Even if the majority of samples contained only saprophytic or facultative pathogen bacteria, there is still a concern that some of those food items could be found on the local market or be consumed by a larger group of people. The higher number of the samples were confiscated during Christmas and Easter holidays and mainly confiscated dry smoked meat were found to be negative for the presence of investigated bacteria, but in any case, it could be reasonable to continue such monitoring for longer period of time and on larger amount of samples.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Veterinarska medicina

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