Contamination of Meat: The Effects of Slaughter Practices On the Bacteriology of the Red Meat Carcass

The Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 1980, Pages 3-9

  Roberts, T A ^a  

^a Meat Research Institute ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOLOGY; MEAT; METHODOLOGY; MICROORGANISM; PREVENTION; QUALITY CONTROL; SLAUGHTERHOUSE;

ABATTOIRS; ANIMAL; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; FREEZING; HYGIENE; MEAT; SHEEP; SWINE;

EID: 0018834272     PISSN: 14664240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/146642408010000102     Document Type: Article

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