Control of Food Animals in Their Chains: Tools to Detect Unwanted Substances and Factors

Food safety asks for zoonoses/animal health, residues/ contaminants, zoonotic agents/ resistance genes, also for wellbeing of animals. Food chains with animal categories, the presence of risk factors in the region, also local keeping techniques characterize the list of risk factors to be considered. Good Practices are intended to keep the chains safe (prevention), for verification, internal or external control tests are established for the absence/ presence of unwanted factors in daily work's performance (called “meat inspection” for slaughter animals). Consequently, for meat inspection, appropriate methods from different disciplines should be provided for any of inspection targets.