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Farm Sustainability Dashboard

The Farm Sustainability Dashboard has been designed to improve industry best practice and meet evolving community expectations. It has been created for business owners and is appropriate for farms of all sizes.

Food Safety

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Leading Research: in Food Safety

Food safety is a key issue for both consumers and egg farmers and is critical to maintaining confidence in eggs as a staple food.

Work to date has demonstrated that it is possible to minimise risks arising on-farm to a very low level and this work will continue through both research and communications activities.

There remains an even greater potential to assist in managing food safety risks arising in the post-farm egg value chain by continuing to facilitate dialogue between the egg industry, food safety regulators and end-users of eggs and egg products.

The positive health and nutritional benefits of eggs to humans will continue to be characterised and disseminated. By investing in RD&E we intend to reduce food safety issues, increase consumer confidence and consumption and enhance industry credibility.

For all Food Safety resources click here.

Key Resources

  • An updated Salmonella Response Plan

    This synopsis is an adaptation of the Salmonella Incidence Response Plan, and is designed to provide a minimum standard for use by farmers if their farm is implicated in a foodborne outbreak.

  • Salmonella Incidence Response Plan

    This Salmonella Incidence Response Plan provides the opportunity to include the development of an accepted national response to the identification of SE in Australian commercial egg layer flocks.

  • Code of Practice for Shell egg production grading packing and distribution 2009

    The Code aims to prevent contamination and deterioration in the quality of shell eggs and has been designed to cover different types of egg production systems from small free range farms to intensive cage systems.

  • Synopsis of Salmonella Response Plan

    This synopsis is an adaptation of the Salmonella Incidence Response Plan, and is designed to provide a minimum standard for use by farmers if their farm is implicated in a foodborne outbreak.

  • SE Guide for Producers

    Salmonella Enteritidis – A Guide for Producers

Current Research

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    Investigating improved rodent control strategies

    Researchers will work closely with industry to develop innovative, economical strategies for efficient rodent management. The strategies will be trialled on participating egg farms and the outcomes and learnings will be communicated to industry.

  • Refrigerated transport and storage is essential

    Review of literature for understanding eggs contamination during cold-chain transportation

    This scope of this project is to determine if various lower storage temperatures will mitigate the
    growth of Salmonella Enteritis and Salmonella Typhimurium. The work will involve literature
    review, use of specific scientific databases, and collaboration with scientists to ensure accurate
    information is gathered.

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    Protecting Australia's poultry using genetic restoration

    In this proof of concept study, researchers will attempt to embed genetic material from other poultry species into the layer hen genome. The specific genetic material relates to Avian influenza resistance so there is the potential that it could do the same for the layer hen.

Completed Research

Projects you might find interesting

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