Liha töötlemine
Epidemiological studies have confirmed monocytogenes tolerates well various stress
that meat products have been involved in factors that it encounters in food-processing
sporadic cases and outbreaks of listeriosis in plants and has a very good ability to attach
many countries. Contamination of ready-to- to different surfaces and thus to persist in
eat (RTE) meat and poultry products by L. food plants for years (Senczek et al. 2000;
monocytogenes has represented a major Lundén et al. 2003). Insufficient manual
source of foodborne illness in the United scrubbing during the cleaning process and an
States in recent years. The lethality treatment inadequate disinfection have been linked to
received by many processed RTE meats and the presence of L. monocytogenes in finished
poultry products generally eliminates the products.