Food safety, health management, and biosecurity characteristics of poultry farms in Arusha City, northern Tanzania

Along a gradient of intensification

Abstract

With the growth, urbanisation, and changing consumption patterns of Tanzania’s human population, new livestock production systems are emerging. Intensification of poultry production may result in opportunities and threats for food safety, such as improved awareness of biosecurity or increasing prevalence of foodborne pathogens including nontyphoidal Salmonella or Campylobacter spp. We conducted a semiquantitative analysis of poultry production systems in northern Tanzania, with emphasis on biosecurity, health management practices, and prevalence of foodborne pathogens, to gain insight into potential associations between intensification and food safety.

This is a publication arising from the Zoonoses and Emerging Livestock Systems (ZELS) programme

Citation

Sindiyo E, Maganga R, Thomas K, Benschop J, Swai E, Shirima G, Zadocks R (2018). Food safety, health management, and biosecurity characteristics of poultry farms in Arusha City, northern Tanzania, along a gradient of intensification. East African Health Res J. 2:168-180.

Food safety, health management, and biosecurity characteristics of poultry farms in Arusha City, northern Tanzania, along a gradient of intensification

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Published 24 May 2019