Applying HACCP-based Quality Risk Management on dairy farms

313 Pages·2007·6.137 MB·English

by  Jos Noordhuizen, Joao Cannas da Silva, Siert-Jan Boersema, Ana Vieira

Applying
HACCP-based
Quality Risk Management
on dairy farms
edited by:
Jos Noordhuizen
Joao Cannas da Silva
Siert-Jan Boersema
Ana Vieira
Applying HACCP-based Quality Risk Management on dairy farms

Applying HACCP-based
Quality Risk Management
on dairy farms
edited by:
Jos Noordhuizen
Joao Cannas da Silva
Siert-Jan Boersema
Ana Vieira
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In memory of two outstanding veterinary pioneers and colleagues
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whose primary interests were the veterinary profession and the dairy cattle sector

Contents
List of abbreviations 9
Preface 11
Chapter 1. Introduction 13
Chapter 2. Assessment of strengths and weaknesses 21
Chapter 3. Good Dairy Farming codes of practice 33
Chapter 4. The HACCP-concept, the 7 principles and 12 steps (general
issues) 63
Chapter 5. Flow diagrams of the production process 79
Chapter 6. Identification of hazards and evaluation of risks 95
Chapter 7. Critical Control Points (CCP) and Points of Particular
Attention (POPA): their standards & tolerances or targets, their
monitoring, and corrective measures 109
Chapter 8. Support programmes in a HACCP-based Quality Risk
Management programme 127
Chapter 9. Documentation in HACCP-like Quality Risk Management
programmes 157
Chapter 10. Validation & verification of the HACCP-based Quality Risk
Management programme 163
Chapter 11. Application of the HACCP principles to multifunctional farms
open to the general public 169
Chapter 12. Applications of the HACCP principles to milking goat farms in
France 199
Chapter 13. Veterinary advice to entrepreneur-like dairy farmers regarding
Quality Risk Management 219
Chapter 14. Communication in the veterinary advisory practice: practical
application of behavioural economics and communication skills 249
Chapter 15. Final remarks 271
Literature references 291
Acknowledgements 305
Index 307
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List of abbreviations
BCS body condition score (a scoring method)
CCP critical control point (control means here: mastering)
CMT California mastitis test (for assessing somatic cell count in milk)
DM dry matter (as a component of feed analysis)
FC faeces consistency (a scoring method)
GAP good agricultural practice
GDF good dairy farming code of practice
GMA good medicine application code of practice
GMP good manufacturing practice
GVP good veterinary practice
HACCP hazard analysis critical control points
HFS herd fertility scheme
HHPM Herd Health & Production Management programmes
HTAP herd treatment advisory plan
Lux an index for light intensity in (animal) houses
NEB negative energy balance (a physiological or pathophysiological state
after calving in high yielding dairy cows)
POPA point of particular attention (a critical point in the on-farm production
process not meeting the formal CCP criteria). Also called “general
measure of control” (GMC) or “critical management point”(CMP).
QRM Quality Risk Management (programme)
RF rumen fill (a scoring method)
SCC somatic cell count (commonly in individual cow milk or bulk tank
milk)
STEC see VTEC
SWA strengths and weaknesses assessment
SWOT strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats (observational field survey
on one or more particular farming domains)
TEC teat end callosity (a scoring method)
TMR total mixed ration
UHC udder health control programme
VTEC verocytotoxin producing E. coli (nowadays indicated as STEC: shigella
toxin producing E. coli)
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