Publications by authors named "Fernando Garcia Viejo"
Trichinellosis is a major foodborne zoonotic disease responsible for 41 human cases, according to the European Union One Health Zoonoses Report. In southern Spain, a quality management system (QMS) was applied to satellite laboratories (SLs) that conduct meat inspections of spp. ensuring excellence practices.
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- * Quality Management Systems (QMS) have been applied in non-accredited slaughterhouses and game handling facilities in southern Spain to enhance testing of Trichinella and address public health concerns.
- * The study used statistical analyses to evaluate the effectiveness of QMS, highlighting that having multiple auditors improves result consistency, and identified technical procedure issues as critical risk factors in the auditing process.
In this study, the possible influence of the food matrix and the interfering population of microorganisms on the detection and count of in three common foods of the Spanish diet (Spanish omelette, fresh cheese and vegetable salad) was determined. Four groups were assayed: one control, two groups with interfering microorganisms ( Enteritidis, and ) with different levels of and a final group only contaminated with . The samples were analyzed with the normalized method (UNE-EN ISO 11290:2018) and with an alternative technique (VIDAS).
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