Exposure assessment for Bacillus cereus in ready-to-eat Kimbab selling at stores

Food Control

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 682-688

  Bahk, Gyung Jin ^a,b   Todd, Ewen C D ^b   Hong, Chong Hae ^c   Oh, Deog Hwan ^c   Ha, Sang Do ^d  

^a Korea Health Industry Development Institute   (South Korea)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Kangwon National University   (South Korea)

^d Chung Ang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Bacillus cereus; Exposure assessment; Kimbab; Modeling; Ready to eat (RTE) food

Indexed keywords

BACILLUS CEREUS; PORPHYRA UMBILICALIS;

EID: 33845424611     PISSN: 09567135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodcont.2006.02.017     Document Type: Article

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