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FOOD STANDARDS ASSOCIATION

Advisory Committee on the Microbiological Safety of Food (ACMSF) Set up in 1990, this statutory committee provides expert advice to government on questions relating to microbes and food.

B12002: Review of raw milk analysis methods and assessment of their effectiveness as pathogen markers and indicators of farm hygiene Friday, 30 April 2004 This research project seeks to assess the fitness of various bacterial groups for use as indicators of quality, faecal contamination and pathogen content of raw milk.

A representative selection of raw milk samples will be tested over 1 year to ensure account is taken of seasonal variation in bacterial levels. Duplicate aliquots of samples will also be tested for the presence of known milk-borne pathogens (e.g. campylobacter, VTEC, salmonella and Mycobacterium paratuberculosis).

Study Duration: July 2002 to June 2004

Contractor: Direct Laboratories

FOOD STANDARDS ASSOCIATION, December 2004 Update

Association between Johne's disease and Crohn's disease

Minutes and Papers of the 42nd meeting Tuesday, 09 April 2002

8. Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (ACM/547) 8.1 By way of background, the Chairman explained that for many years the ACMSF had had an interest in Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP). This interest originated in information about work carried out at Queen’s University, Belfast indicating that MAP might be more heat resistant than had previously been thought and that that heat resistance might imply that it could survive the commercial pasteurisation of milk

Minutes Tuesday, 13 November 2001 MINUTES OF THE THIRTY-SIXTH MEETING OF THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON THE MICROBIOLOGICAL SAFETY OF FOOD HELD ON 17 MARCH 2000 AT THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, SKIPTON HOUSE, LONDON SE1 STARTING AT 10.30 AM

7.8 The Joint Food Safety and Standards Group was currently engaged in a year-long, nation-wide survey to investigate the microbiological quality of raw and pasteurised cows’ milk. One third of the samples were being examined for the presence of MPTB. The Committee had received early results in December 1999 (ACM/458). Viable MPTB had been found in 4 of 129 pasteurised milk samples. Members acknowledged at that time that the relevance of the organism to human illness was unknown but expressed some concern that it had been detected in pasteurised milk. They had agreed that it was important to establish whether MPTB had survived pasteurisation or whether there was some other explanation for the positive results. Further scientific work was needed to help establish the conditions under which MPTB could be eliminated from milk. Work was also being funded by MAFF on Johne’s disease control strategies in other countries. The Committee agreed that it should re-examine the position as soon as results from on-going work became available

DRAFT STRATEGY FOR THE CONTROL OF MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM SUBSPECIES PARATUBERCULOSIS (MAP) IN COWS MILK See Food Standards Association link at the left

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