Abattoir sources of psychrophilic clostridia causing blown pack spoilage of vacuum-packed chilled meats determined by culture-based and molecular detection procedures

Letters in Applied Microbiology

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 406-411

  Boerema, J A ^a   Broda, Dorota M ^a   Bell, R G ^a  

^a RUAKURA RESEARCH CENTRE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

'blown pack'; Clostridia; Meat spoilage

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; RNA; SPOILAGE;

'BLOWN PACK'; 16S RRNA GENE; ANIMAL CARCASS; FAECAL SAMPLES; GENE FRAGMENTS; MEAT SPOILAGE; MOLECULAR DETECTION; SLAUGHTER PLANTS; SOIL PARTICLES; SOIL SAMPLE;

MEATS;

RNA 16S;

FOOD SCIENCE; MEAT; MICROBIOLOGY;

ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM; FECES; FOOD SPOILAGE; MEAT; NONHUMAN; SLAUGHTERHOUSE; SOIL; VACUUM;

ANIMALIA; CLOSTRIDIA; CLOSTRIDIUM; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0038019517     PISSN: 02668254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1472-765X.2003.01332.x     Document Type: Article

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