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COST ACTION 920 |
Inventory of QMRA Studies in Europe |
Data sheet
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Pathogen |
E. coli O157 |
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Country or region |
Great Britain |
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Transmission route |
From |
Farm |
To |
Consumption |
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Specific product(s) |
Mince meat from sheep, cattle; sausages from pigs; whole chicken; retail cuts from sheep, pigs, and cattle. | ||||
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End-point(s) |
Prevalence of contaminated servings and amount of E. coli O157 per contaminated serving | ||||
Reports or publications
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Bibliographic reference |
Stanfield, G.; Irving, T.; Reilly, W.; Synge, B.; Jones, R.; O’Brien, S. Development of a risk assessment model for the different routes of infection by E. coli O157. Final report for the Food Standards Agency (FSA) UK. |
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Abstract |
Using a farm-to-consumption approach, depending upon availability of data, a quantitative exposure assessment was developed for cattle, sheep, pigs and poultry products. This involved deriving the changes in the prevalence and amount of bacteria along the food chain. By simulating this change in the numbers of VTEC O157 along the food chain, the variation in the amount of VTEC O157 on an average serving at the point of consumption was estimated. This was achieved by using traditional MRA techniques of fitting distributions to observed data and a more recent approach, that of the Modular Process Risk Model (MPRM). For products (e.g. deer meat, sheep milk, goats milk) for which there were limited data, a qualitative approach was used. |
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Status |
Under review by the Food Standards Agency |
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Availability |
Not available at present |
Project group
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Institute |
Veterinary
Laboratories Agency (VLA) [Food pathways] |
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Contact persons |
VLA: r.d.jones@vla.defra.gsi.gov.uk WRc-NSF: geoff.stanfield@wrcnsf.com |
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Partners |
Scottish
Centre for Infection and Environmental Health (SCIEH) Health
Protection Agency (HPA) |