FACT SHEETS

ANIMAL HANDLING

• Animal Handling and Welfare in Meat Plants
• Products Derived From Animals
• Religious Slaughter

BSE

• Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE or 'Mad Cow Disease')
• Questions and Answers About BSE and Beef Safety
• Testing for BSE: What it Can, and Cannot Accomplish
• Q & A: Safety of Beef Products Containing Bone or Bone Fragments
• Timeline of European and U.S. BSE Developments
• Chart: U.S. BSE Prevention Strategies

LOW-OXYGEN MODIFIED ATMOSPHERE PACKAGING SYSTEMS WITH CO

• Carbon Monoxide in Meat Packaging: Myths and Facts
• Case Ready Meats/Modified Atmosphere Packaging
• Statements from Scientists Concerning the Safety and Quality of Low Oxygen Modified Atmosphere Packaging with Carbon Monoxide
• Letter from Dr. Melvin C. Hunt, Kansas State University, to the Food and Drug Administration, July 26, 2006
• Letter from Dr. Oddvin Sorheim, Norwegian Food Research Institute, to the Food and Drug Administration, September 6, 2006
• Low-Oxygen Packaging with CO: A Study in Food Politics That Warrants Peer Review, Randall D. Huffman, Ph.D. and Janet M. Riley, Food Safety Magazine, December 2006/January 2007

POTENTIAL FOODBORNE MICROBIAL PATHOGENS

• Campylobacter
• E.coli O157:H7
• Listeria monocytogenes
• Microbiological Testing in the Meat and Poultry Industry
• Pathogen Control in Ground Beef

OTHER AMI FACT SHEETS

• Avian Influenza: Questions and Answers
• Environmental Sustainability
• Food Defense in the Meat and Poultry Industry
• Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD)
• Hormones in Beef
• Irradiation
• Meat Derived by Advanced Meat Recovery
• Organic and Natural Meat Products
• Sodium Nitrite: The Facts
• Sanitary Equipment Design
• The U.S. Meat and Poultry Inspection System: An Overview