Marion Healy

An Australian Process that Assesses Country BSE Food Safety Risk

Hong Jin, Leise Berven, Rosalind Dalefield, James Conlan, Marion Healy & Scott Crerar · European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety · 2015

Background: Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) is a transmissible, fatal neurodegenerative disease of cattle. Recognised in 1986, the disease causes a spongiform degeneration of the neural network in the brain and spinal cord of infected cattle leading to incoordination, atax...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/EJNFS/2015/16124

A Through-chain Analysis of Food Safety Hazards and Control Measures Associated with the Production and Supply of Seed Sprouts for Human Consumption

Hong Jin, Duncan Craig, Patricia Blenman, Adele Yates, Scott Crerar & Marion Healy · European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety · 2014

Background: Seed sprouts contaminated with pathogenic microorganisms, such as Salmonella spp. and Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) present an unacceptable health risk to consumers. An outbreak that occurred in Australia during 2005 and 2006 due to the consumption of...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/EJNFS/2014/11245