Post-harvest Approaches to Improve Poultry Meat Safety

Current rising trend in the demand for white meat, particularly poultry and poultry products, is partly responsible for a significant number of foodborne infections or outbreaks worldwide. With the inadequacy of legislation alone to prevent foodborne disease outbreaks, a greater responsibility lies with the poultry industry for producing a microbiological safe and wholesome food product. In this chapter, we have included updated information for improving poultry meat safety and quality during post-harvest processing, packaging, storing, and shipping as well at the consumer level in homes.