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2000; Kain et al. 2001; Childs et al.
slaughtered (Reed and Kaplan 1996; Sofos 2006; Woerner et al. 2006). An effective
and Smith 1998), which can be a constraint practice, for example, could be the combina-
when animal washing is considered before tion of animal washing with separation of
slaughter. Nevertheless, when animals are washed or clean from unwashed animals and
wet or excessively soiled, slaughter speeds application of pre-evisceration decontamina-
should be reduced to minimize accidental tion treatment with chemicals. Such practice
transfer of contamination from the exterior has been shown to improve the microbial
of the animals onto the carcass or the plant quality of cattle carcasses by reducing aerobic
environment (Sofos 2002). Furthermore, plate count (APC) levels and the prevalence
modifications in the steps involved in hide of E. coli O157:H7 from 56% to 34%
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