Probabilistic model for Listeria monocytogenes growth during distribution, retail storage, and domestic storage of pasteurized milk

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2181-2191

  Koutsoumanis, Konstantinos ^a   Pavlis, Athanasios ^a   Nychas, George John E ^b   Xanthiakos, Konstantinos ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

[A] GROWTH MODELS; CHAIN CONDITION; CONSUMER EXPOSURE; DOMESTIC REFRIGERATORS; EU REGULATIONS; IMPORTANCE ANALYSIS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MEAN TEMPERATURE; MONOCYTOGENES; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; PASTEURIZED MILK; PROBABILISTIC MODELS; RANK ORDER; SAFETY CRITERION; SHELF LIFE; STORAGE AND HANDLING; STRAIN VARIABILITY; TIME-TEMPERATURE CONDITIONS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOORS; LISTERIA; MONTE CARLO METHODS; REFRIGERATORS; SALES; SURVEYS;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

BACTERIUM; EUROPEAN UNION; FOOD STORAGE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MILK; MODEL TEST; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PATHOGEN; PROBABILITY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; FOOD HANDLING; GREECE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MICROBIOLOGY; MILK; STATISTICAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE; TIME;

ANIMALS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; FOOD HANDLING; GREECE; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MILK; MODELS, STATISTICAL; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

GREECE;

LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES;

EID: 77950286096     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02430-09     Document Type: Article

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