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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459663503321

Autore

Rees G

Titolo

Safe Management of Shellfish and Harvest Waters [[electronic resource] ] : Minimizing Health Risks from Sewage-contaminated Shellfish

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Geneva, : World Health Organization, 2009

ISBN

1-282-76088-2

9786612760884

92-4-068541-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (358 p.)

Disciplina

799.1

Soggetti

Food poisoning -- Prevention -- Congresses

Seafood

Seawater

Sewage -- Microbiology -- Congresses

Shellfish as food -- Contamination -- Congresses

Shellfish culture -- Environmental aspects -- Congresses

Shellfish fisheries -- Sanitation -- Congresses

Shellfish

Water -- Pollution -- Congresses

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Expert consensus; 2. Bivalves: Global production and trade trends; 3. Adverse health outcomes; 4. Driving forces and risk management; 5. Identification of primary sources of faecal pollution; 6. Components of microbiological monitoring programmes; 7. Real-time monitoring technologies for indicator bacteria and pathogens in shellfish and shellfish harvesting waters; 8. Sanitary profiling of shellfish harvesting areas; 9. Depuration and relaying; 10. Overview of legislative principles and measures

11. Official control monitoring programmes for live bivalve molluscs -legislative and regulatory approaches: Scotland12. Official control monitoring programmes for live bivalve molluscs -legislative and



regulatory approaches: Canada; 13. Official control monitoring programmes for live bivalve molluscs -legislative and regulatory approaches: New Zealand; 14. Current management practices; 15. Experience from recreational waters; 16. Microbial modelling incoastal environments and early warning systems: useful tools to limit shellfish microbial contamination; 17. Framework for change; Index

Sommario/riassunto

""Developed from an expert workshop convened by the World Health Organization and US Environmental Protection Agency, Safe Management of Shellfish and Harvest Waters provides a thorough review of the issues surrounding public health concerns associated with shellfish consumption. The trade and consumption of bivalve shellfish is a global industry and is increasing. Human illness caused by infectious agents transmitted through animal or human sources through shellfish consumption has been recognized for many years. It addresses contaminant sources and means of transmission to bivalve shellfish