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Case study on risk: Salmonella case in Finland

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CASES ANALYSIS2 CASES ANALYSIS1 Name Case Study Analysis Institution Date Case Study Analysis Case study on risk: Salmonella case in Finland In the year 1995-2004, Finland experienced an outbreak of the Salmonella infection which is passed on from poultry to humans. Finland’s Ministry of Agriculture and Farming, the authority that is responsible for regulating food production in Finland, set up a National Salmonella Control Programme whose mandate was to constrain the number of human salmonella infections acquired from food.

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CASES ANALYSIS 2Case Study AnalysisCase study on risk: Salmonella case in Finland In the year 1995-2001, Finland experienced an outbreak of the Salmonella infection which is passed on from poultry to humans. The contagious Salmonella bacterium transmits from the animals themselves, their food, or the environment to which they are exposed (Wobeser, 2013). This case describes some of the risk management procedures that the government of Finland undertook so as to monitor and curb the risk of human salmonella infections spread from poultry.Finland’s Ministry of Agriculture and Farming, the authority that is responsible for regulating food production in Finland, set up a National Salmonella Control Programme whose mandate was to constrain the number of human salmonella infections acquired from food. Through the Programme, there was removal from the production chain of breeding flocks that were detected as being salmonella positive; there was also heat treatment of meat from broiler flocks that were salmonella positive. The interventions made through the programme, though without any formal research, kept the prevalence of the disease at an acceptable level. The salmonella case has five major properties. The first is the application field which entails the prevalence of the salmonella bacterium in the poultry production chain and the transmission to humans. The second is the decision maker in the management of the risk and that is the Finish Ministry of Agriculture and Poultry. The third is additional stakeholders: consumers, and poultryfarmers. The fourth property is the reason for undertaking the study; and it was the need to evaluate the implemented intervention program to examine its effect and appropriateness, as a political jurisdiction, and for research interest. The fifth aspect is the methodology used and the Programme made use of the Bayesian probabilistic inference model, cost-benefit analysis, MonteCarlo simulation, and Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampling. The intervention program to fight
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CASES ANALYSIS 3the salmonella infection outbreak and the risks it involved was evaluated by, and as demanded bythe Ministry, the Department of Risk Assessment at the National Veterinary and Food Research Institute. The risk assessment model that was used in the broiler production chain to deal with the risk of salmonella constituted three parts: the Primary Production Inference Model, the Secondary Production Simulation Model, and the Consumption Inference Model (Laupland et.al, 2009). After the assessment of the risk of human salmonella infections spread through broiler meat, the next step was the managing the risk. The risk management process employed by the government of Finland through the relevant ministries involved six steps. The first step was identifying the risk, the salmonella infection and the monetary loss incurred by the broiler producers; the secondstep was evaluating the risk to gauge the probability of its transmission and prevalence, with and without the modelled intervention programme. Also, the consequences of the human salmonella infections, and the cost-benefit analysis; development and evaluation of risk management methods which included removing of detected salmonella-positive breeding flocks, and heat-treating contaminated broiler meat. The other steps included making of risk management decision to continue with the intervention program; and finally the evaluation of the solutions implemented. As observed from the salmonella case, every poultry meat consumer is faced with the risk of the infection and the control to the risk mainly depends on the procedures employed at the production chain. The government of Finland, as well as the governments of other countries should ensure a safe and thoroughly inspected poultry production chain to eradicate the risk of human salmonella infections. The combination of both flock removal and heating of
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