Use of hot water for beef carcass decontamination

Journal of Food Protection

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 19-25

  Castillo, A ^a   Lucia, L M ^a   Goodson, K J ^a   Savell, J W ^a   Acuff, G R ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 0031882701     PISSN: 0362028X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4315/0362-028X-61.1.19     Document Type: Article

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