Pig meat and food safety in Myanmar: evidence to support practice

Myanmar Pig Partnership EVIDENCE BRIEF Pig meat and food safety in Myanmar: evidence to support practice Research findings reveal that disease-causing bacteria, including Salmonella, are widespread on pig farms of all sizes in Yangon Region, Myanmar, as well as in pig meat sold to consumers in the city and rural areas. [...] A number of factors backyard farms (<10 pigs) in peri-urban township A in likely to increase cross-contamination before and the first time window, and five in the second. [...] enhance cross-contamination); and finally The project’s efforts to gather key data on the handling, dressing and butchering of carcases on infectious and zoonotic causes of human diarrhoea in flat surfaces (rather than from a rail). [...] The high percentage of Salmonella- investigated intensification in the production and supply of pig positive samples in Yangon slaughterhouses shows meat and how related factors, including socioeconomic these facilities need better hygiene practices to conditions for farmers and people’s understandings and reduce carcase cross-contamination. [...] Given the high level of funded by UK Research and Innovation, the UK Foreign, bacterial contamination on meat at retail, food Commonwealth and Development Office, and UK Defence safety awareness initiatives aimed at consumers Science and Technology Laboratory under the Zoonoses and are justified.