Contents -- 1. A Brief History of the Food Safety Consortium -- Preharvest Foodborne Pathogen Ecology and Intervention Strategies -- 2. Novel Strategies for the Preharvest Control of Campylobacter in Poultry -- 3. Colonization and Transmission of Escherichia coli O157:H7 in Swine -- 4. Traversing the Swine Gastrointestinal Tract: Salmonella Survival and Pathogenesis -- 5. On-Farm Interventions to Reduce Epizootic Bacteria in Food-Producing Animals and the Environment -- 6. Colonization and Pathogenesis of Foodborne Salmonella in Egg-Laying Hens -- Postharvest Foodborne Pathogen Ecology -- 7. Preharvest Food-Safety Issues That Carry Over into the Plant -- 8. Validating HACCP for Small Plants -- 9. Campylobacter jejuni in Biofilms: A Possible Mechanism of Survival Inside and Outside the Chicken Host -- 10. Beef-Safety Research Conducted by the Food Safety Consortium -- 11. Occurrence of Listeria monocytogenes in Raw and Ready-to-Eat Foods and Food-Processing Environments and Intervention Strategies for Control -- Rapid Methods and Detection Strategies for Foodborne Pathogens -- 12. Rapid Methods and Automation in Microbial Food Safety -- 13. Genomic Approaches to Bacterial Pathogens Using Transposon Mutagenesis: Food-Safety Applications -- 14. Advances in Antibody-Based Technologies for Listeria monocytogenes -- 15. The Potential for Application of Foodborne Salmonella Gene Expression Profiling Assays in Postharvest Poultry Processing -- Antibiotics and Antimicrobialsin Food Safety: Perspectives and Strategies -- 16. Quantitative Profiling of the Intestinal Microbiota of Drug-Free Broiler Chickens -- 17. Prevalence and Antimicrobial Resistance of Foodborne Pathogens in Conventional and Organic Livestock Operations -- 18. Fluoroquinolone-Resistant Campylobacter jejuni in Raw Poultry Products.

19. Plant Extracts, Natural Antimicrobials, and Irradiation to Improve Microbial Safety and Quality of Meat Products -- Emerging Issues in Food Safety -- 20. Assessing Consumer Concerns and Perceptions of Food-Safety Risks and Practices: Methodologies and Outcomes -- 21. Food Safety of Natural and Organic Poultry -- 22. Alternative and Organic Beef Production: Food-Safety Issues -- 23. The Consumers' Perspective on the Safety of Organic Foods: An Opportunity for Future Research -- 24. Future Prospects for Advancing Food-Safety Research in Food Animals -- Contributors -- Index.