SAN ANTONIO — Food Safety Net Services, a network of food safety experts providing laboratory and technical services, co-hosted the International Forum for Transmissible Animal Diseases and Food Safety (TAFS) Workshop in San Antonio in June.
More than 40 industry experts from around the world gathered for the workshop in order to discuss bovine Paratuberculosis caused by Mycobacterium paratuberculosis (MaP) both at the animal (farm) and product (food) level.
The attendees also participated in a mock crisis situation based on emerging issues relating to MaP.
The TAFS Forum is a non-profit Swiss foundation that began in 2002 as the International Forum for Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSE) and Food Safety, in response to the urgent need to address the BSE/TSE issue. In 2006, TAFS extended its scope to include other transmissible animal disease, such as avian influenza and Paratuberculosis, and the risks they may pose to food safety.
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