Publications

Introduction : Campylobacter spp. are still the major bacterial cause of infectious diarrheal illness in Belgium and in many other countries (Scientific Institute of Public Health, 2011; EFSA, 2012). In 2003, the Superior Health Council of the Belgian Federal Public Service Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment initiated a risk assessment of Campylobacter spp. contamination in poultry meat preparations. The limited availability of data on ...

Campylobacter spp. are still the major bacterial cause of infectious diarrheal illness in Belgium and in many other countries. In 2003, the Superior Health Council of the Belgian Federal Public Service Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment initiated a risk assessment of Campylobacter spp. contamination in poultry meat preparations. The limitation in data for the local situation in Belgium in consumer behaviour and also the semi-quantitative ...

The increasing global demand for poultry products, together with the growing consumer concerns related to bird health and welfare, pose a significant challenge to the poultry industry. Therefore, the poultry industry is increasingly implementing novel technologies to optimize and enhance bird welfare and productivity. This second part of a bipartite review on omics technologies in poultry health and productivity highlights the implementation of ...

Mycoplasma gallisepticum is a pathogenic species for poultry and responsible for major economic loss. It is a common cause of chronic respiratory disease and can result in a variety of different symptoms such as coughing, nasal discharge, sinusitis, airsacculitis, decrease in egg production, and increase in embryo mortality in layers, reduction of weight gain and downgrading of carcasses in broilers. Because of the possible vertical ...

In biology, molecular terms with the suffix "-omics" refer to disciplines aiming at the collective characterization of pools of molecules derived from different layers (DNA, RNA, proteins, metabolites) of living organisms using high-throughput technologies. Such omics analyses have been widely implemented in poultry research in recent years. This first part of a bipartite review on omics technologies in poultry health and productivity examines ...

Antimicrobial use (AMU) is identified as the primary driver of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), especially in poultry production where oral administration to entire groups poses a risk of improper dosing and exposes healthy animals. To mitigate this, poultry producers in Bangladesh must reduce AMU to limit the selection of resistant bacteria, thereby promoting the well-being of both animals and humans as well as need to adopt proper biosecurity ...

Following a request from the European Commission, the Panel on Additives and Products or Substances used in Animal Feed (FEEDAP) was asked to deliver a scientific opinion on OptiPhos PLUS® to be used as a feed additive for chickens for fattening, chickens reared for laying, turkeys for fattening, turkeys reared for breeding, minor poultry species for fattening, minor poultry species reared for laying, minor poultry species reared for ...

Because of the growing consumers' interest in organic meat, consumers' (N = 976) attitude toward organic meat was evaluated. Most respondents (59%) occasionally purchased organic chicken. To determine the organic chicken consumer profile, the organic chicken consumption frequencies of different demographic groups were compared. The results show dependence on age (P = 0.039) and ethnicity (P = 0.015). Older respondents as well as respondents who ...

Thermotolerant Campylobacter bacteria, most notably Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli, are a major cause of human foodborne gastroenteritis, which is usually related to consumption of contaminated poultry. In this work, we present a sensor and the associated assay for the on-site detection of the prevalent species C. jejuni and C. coli. The sensor uses surface-imprinted polymer (SIP) layers as selective, biomimetic recognition elements ...