Preharvest Salmonella control in poultry requires patience

Better Salmonella control in poultry production will involve a holistic, multi-pronged strategy that will take time to implement and validate.

“The industry has done a wonderful job of significantly reducing Salmonella over the past 20 years. Nevertheless, poultry continues to be a major source of human illnesses attributed to Salmonella,” Bill Potter, Ph.D., Elanco food safety technical advisor, said. “Everybody agrees that although we’ve made this significant reduction in Salmonella at plants, to make even further reductions we need to continue exploring technologies and monitoring systems at preharvest.” Read more