Modelling food safety and economic consequences of surveillance and control strategies for Salmonella in pigs and pork

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SUMMARYTargets for maximum acceptable levels of Salmonella in pigs and pork are to be decided. A stochastic simulation model accounting for herd and abattoir information was used to evaluate food safety and economic consequences of different surveillance and control strategies, based among others on Danish surveillance data. An epidemiological module simulated the Salmonella carcass prevalence for different scenarios. Cost-effectiveness analysis was used to compare the costs of the different scenarios with their expected effectiveness. Herd interventions were not found sufficient to attain Salmonella carcass prevalence
Original languageEnglish
JournalEpidemiology and Infection
Volume139
Issue number5
Pages (from-to)754-764
Number of pages11
ISSN0950-2688
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2010

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