A Risk Assessment of Escherichia Coli O157: H7 in Ground Beef

Microbial Food Safety in Animal Agriculture: Current Topics

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 313-324

  Ebel, Eric ^a   Schlosser, Wayne ^b   Orloski, Kathleen ^a   Kause, J ^a   Roberts, Tanya ^a   Narrod, C ^c   Malcolm, S ^d   Coleman, M ^a   Powell, Mark ^a  

^a U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^b Food Safety and Inspection Service   (United States)

^c FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1002/9780470752616.ch32     Document Type: Chapter

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