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• to test the effect of intrinsic and extrinsic
microbes die off.
factors on mycotoxin production, thus
It is more common in the United States to
finding ways for inhibition.
use the moisture : protein (M : P) ratio rather
than the water activity value (aw) for distin- As a result of these experiments, it has
guishing semidry and dry sausages and for become clear that mycotoxin production can
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be found in artificially inoculated meats; if few days, maybe weeks—without organolep-
mycotoxic mold was the test strain, toxin for- tic faults. The reason for this limitation is that
mation is influenced by several factors, out the mold layer sticks sufficiently to the casing
of which genetics, food composition, tem- surface if the inside moisture can evaporate
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