food safety and focal point
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Animal products (raw, half-produced and
produced) whether they are prepared for
direct or indirect human consumption, or
for some industries, such as skins,
bowels and others, are subjected to the
following series of control procedures
following:
� Studying the animal status of the country
of origin.
� Sensuality (physical) check on goods at
its arrival to the borders passages.
� Taking samples and testing them in
order to confirm their compliance with
the healthy conditions and the required
specifications as well as their freedom
from pathogens.
In the Directorate of Animal Health, we
have a food safety section and it is
considered as the most important section
in the labs of the Directorate of Animal
Health which includes several active
departments in all the fields of Veterinary
Medicine.
Food safety section interests in all the lab
microbiologic tests of food products from
animal origin, or food products contain
materials from animal origin such as (milk,
meat and their derivatives and fish) and sets
up a plan for lab chemical tests activation of
the food products (protein, sugar, fat,
humidity and salts) through preparing the lab
with all the required equipments for this
process.
Food safety lab is equipped with all the
requirements to reveal the pathogenic
microbes in the food products, which
are tested by the methods adopted the
Syrian Specifications and Standards
Corporation.
The most important test are:� Total account� E. Coli� Coliform� Lesetiria � Salmonella� Bacillus Serious� Golden staphylococcus� Fibro Himoltex� Campylobacter
Work mechanism in the section: The received sample in the Directorate of Animal Health is divided into two parts.
� A sample is prepared to be tested.� A control is used to insure the result in
cast of retesting the samples.
The sample which is prepared to be tested
submitted to the laboratory Department after it is
registered in the head office and the lab office then
it is submitted to the food safety section, the
Department of receiving samples to have a lab
serial number.
� The sample prepared in the lab is subjected to the
required tests, where lab workers test this sample
according to the following several stages:
� Preparing the required solid, liquid reagents media
for the lab work.
� Preparing the sample to be ready for testing.
� Culturing the sample to exceed on the solid and
liquid reagent plates after that putting them in the
incubator at 37ْcentigrade to be ready for the other
stages of lab work.
� Isolating germs by putting them on specific
selected media for the germs intended to be
detected according to the Syrian Standards
Specifications.
� In case of any susceptible sample, the lab worker should ask for the control and test this sample again.
� The susceptible sample is subjected to confirmed tests according to specific stages then the results are compared and confirmed.
� After finishing the tests these results are registered in a specific record.
� The section destroys samples and plates according to the health conditions of destruction.At the present time, the laboratory is provided with sets for revealing the residue traceability (HPLC).