PHOTO: DICK VAN DOORN
PHOTO: DICK VAN DOORN
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New and fast detection of Campylobacter
Up to four times more chicken flocks show signs of Campylobacter colonisation with the cheap and new air-sampling method presented by an EU consortium. In the future the test could also include sampling of Salmonella, avian influenza or other pathogens.
BY DICK VAN DOORN A
Danish professor Jeffrey Hoorfar conducted re- search on the first air-based Campylobacter detection sys- tem.
6 ▶ POULTRY WORLD | No. 6, 2020
ccording to the EU, Campylobacter bacteria caused 246,571 registered cases of foodborne illness in humans in the EU in 2018. This repre- sents 70% of all registered cases of foodborne dis-
eases in Europe in 2018. At the moment, a so called ‘sock method’ for faecal droppings is a common way of testing whether chicken flocks are infected with Campylobacter or not. The disadvantage, however, is that it takes more than four days before broiler farmers know whether their flocks are
positive or not. Being able to identify Campylobacter-positive flocks before they arrive at the slaughterhouse is advanta- geous because contaminated birds can be slaughtered after negative flocks in order to avoid cross-contamination. At the moment there is no air-based detection method for Campylo- bacter anywhere in the world. This will be the first ever such system on the market.
Background to the project The background to this EU project is that a new EU regulation was published in 2017 that requires poultry producers to keep the level of Campylobacter under 1000 CFU/g in the broilers that make to the slaughterhouse. Professor Hoorfar of the Na- tional Food Institute in Denmark explains that the project was initiated “to provide more cost-effective laboratory tools to help poultry producers comply with that regulation.” The new EC regulation from 2017 is an amendment to EC Regulation no. 2073/2005 that brings Campylobacter sampling processes, lim- its and corrective actions, into line with those for Salmonella and Listeria which have been regulated since 2005. This is why a new European initiative called OneHealthEJP (
https://onehealthejp.eu/jrp-air-sample/) started the project called: Air-sampling, a low-cost screening tool in biosecured broiler production. The research work began in January 2018
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