Assessment of hygienic quality of some types of cheese sampled from retail outlets

Veterinaria Italiana

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 233-242

  Prencipe, Vincenza ^a   Migliorati, Giacomo ^a   Matteucci, Osvaldo ^a   Calistri, Paolo ^a   Di Giannatale, Elisabetta ^a  

^a ISTITUTO ZOOPROFILATTICO SPERIMENTALE DELL ABRUZZO E DEL MOLISE G CAPORALE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Asiago; Brie; Camembert; Cheese; Crescenza; Enterotoxin; Escherichia coli O157; Food; Gorgonzola; Italy; Listeria monocytogenes; Safety; Salmonella spp; Staphylococcus; Taleggio

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; SALMONELLA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

ARTICLE; CHEESE; FOOD CONTROL; FOOD INDUSTRY; HYGIENE; ITALY; MICROBIOLOGY; STANDARD;

CHEESE; FOOD INDUSTRY; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; HYGIENE; ITALY;

EID: 77956218264     PISSN: 0505401X     EISSN: 18281427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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