Vitiello D J, Thaler A M
Animal and Egg Production Food Safety Staff, United States Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service, Room 002 South Building, Washington, DC 20250, USA.
Rev Sci Tech. 2001 Aug;20(2):598-604. doi: 10.20506/rst.20.2.1298.
Improvements in food safety in the United States of America are currently limited by the lack of an open, reliable and uniform animal identification system. Public health would benefit from the development of such a system because this would permit accountability for an prevention of food safety hazards, including residues and harmful pathogens. In addition, the public would benefit because data collection and long-term research studies are currently hampered by the lack of animal identification. Understanding of the ecology of food-borne pathogens in the production and handling period before slaughter needs to be improved. Animal identification will permit packers and consumers to reward producers for using food safety-related production practices. Food animal producers do not regularly receive an economic advantage for voluntarily undertaking food safety-related production practices. As a result, the original source of many food animals that enter official establishments is unknown. However, the hazard analysis and critical control point system allows some producers to offer identified animals under verified production control programmes or to enter into agreements with packers with regard to the food safety status of animals.
美国食品安全的改善目前受到缺乏一个开放、可靠且统一的动物标识系统的限制。开发这样一个系统将有益于公众健康，因为这将有助于对食品安全危害（包括残留物和有害病原体）的预防进行问责。此外，公众也将从中受益，因为目前数据收集和长期研究因缺乏动物标识而受阻。需要加强对屠宰前生产和处理阶段食源性病原体生态学的了解。动物标识将使加工商和消费者能够奖励采用与食品安全相关生产做法的生产者。食用动物生产者不会因自愿采取与食品安全相关的生产做法而定期获得经济优势。因此，许多进入官方设施的食用动物的原始来源不明。然而，危害分析与关键控制点系统允许一些生产者在经过验证的生产控制计划下提供已标识的动物，或就动物的食品安全状况与加工商达成协议。
