Michael J. Rothrock Jr. , Walid G. Al Hakeem , Adelumola Oladeinde , Torey Looft , Xiang Li , Jean Y. Guard
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Abstract
Poultry-associated salmonellosis results in significant costs to poultry producers and consumers. Given the vertically integrated nature of the United States poultry industry, a better understanding of Salmonella ecology throughout all levels of poultry production is essential. One nexus point is the hatchery, where eggs from multiple broiler breeder farms are incubated and hatched, with the chicks being sent to numerous farms; therefore, the hatchery represents an ideal area to understand preharvest Salmonella ecology and flow. To achieve this, a commercial broiler hatchery was biomapped, focusing on Salmonella prevalence and serotype diversity among four major sample type categories (Air, Egg, Water, Facility) across five different places in the prehatch, hatch, and posthatch areas. Following two sets of eggs from broiler breeder farms over two production days, the overall Salmonella prevalence was 26% (48/184). Of the positive samples, the highest prevalence was observed in swabs taken from the floor drains in the facility and transport truck (56%), as well as in the hatch and posthatch hatchery areas (50%). Kentucky (n = 17), Gaminara (n = 12), and Alachua (n = 11) were the dominant Salmonella serotypes, with serotypes of greatest outbreak concern from chickens (Enteritidis) representing only 6.25% (3/48) of all recovered Salmonella isolates. The posthatch transport area, including the underfloor reservoirs of the transport trucks, not only harbored Enteritidis but also the enrichment broths from these Salmonella-positive samples also possessed sequences matching the commercial live-attenuated vaccine Typhimurium strain according to CRISPR SeroSeq analyses. These findings highlight the complex diversity of commercial hatchery Salmonella populations, including identifying facility floor drains and transport trucks as potentially important critical control points for hatchery managers to focus their Salmonella mitigation efforts to reduce loads and serotypes entering live production farms.
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The Journal of Food Protection® (JFP) is an international, monthly scientific journal in the English language published by the International Association for Food Protection (IAFP). JFP publishes research and review articles on all aspects of food protection and safety. Major emphases of JFP are placed on studies dealing with:
Tracking, detecting (including traditional, molecular, and real-time), inactivating, and controlling food-related hazards, including microorganisms (including antibiotic resistance), microbial (mycotoxins, seafood toxins) and non-microbial toxins (heavy metals, pesticides, veterinary drug residues, migrants from food packaging, and processing contaminants), allergens and pests (insects, rodents) in human food, pet food and animal feed throughout the food chain;
Microbiological food quality and traditional/novel methods to assay microbiological food quality;
Prevention of food-related hazards and food spoilage through food preservatives and thermal/non-thermal processes, including process validation;
Food fermentations and food-related probiotics;
Safe food handling practices during pre-harvest, harvest, post-harvest, distribution and consumption, including food safety education for retailers, foodservice, and consumers;
Risk assessments for food-related hazards;
Economic impact of food-related hazards, foodborne illness, food loss, food spoilage, and adulterated foods;
Food fraud, food authentication, food defense, and foodborne disease outbreak investigations.