Liha töötlemine
Post-Chilling Decontamination
ground beef produced from the treated trim-
Treatments
mings during storage under retail display
Despite the reduction of microbial popula- conditions at 4°C. Other antimicrobials,
tions and pathogen prevalence by decontami- including low-molecular weight polylactic
nation interventions during slaughtering, acid (2%) and nisin (2%) (Ariyapitipun et al.
dressing, and chilling, surviving microorgan- 2000), applied alone or in combination on
isms or additional contamination may be beef cubes, have reportedly suppressed
present on carcasses, primal and sub-primal growth of L. monocytogenes during vacuum
cuts, and trimmings (Gill and Bryant 1992; storage at 10°C.
Bacon et al. 2002b). Thus, post-chilling Post-chilling interventions, applied fol-
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