Treatment of cattle hides with Shellac solution to reduce hide-to-beef microbial transfer

Meat Science

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 498-502

  Antic, D ^a   Blagojevic, B ^a   Buncic, S ^a  

^a University of Novi Sad   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Beef carcass; Hide; Hide decontamination; Microbial immobilization; Shellac

Indexed keywords

CATTLE HIDES; DIRECT CONTACT; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; HIDE; HIDE DECONTAMINATION; MICROBIAL IMMOBILIZATION; MICROBIAL REDUCTION; REDUCING EFFECTS; SHELLAC; TOTAL VIABLE COUNTS;

DECONTAMINATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

MEATS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOS; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ALCOHOL; DRUG VEHICLE; PLANT RESIN; SHELLAC; TOPICAL ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; CATTLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FOOD CONTROL; FOOD POISONING; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MEAT; MEAT INDUSTRY; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MICROBIOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; SERBIA; SKIN;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; CATTLE; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ETHANOL; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; FOODBORNE DISEASES; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; MEAT; MEAT-PACKING INDUSTRY; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; PHARMACEUTICAL VEHICLES; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RESINS, PLANT; SERBIA; SKIN;

EID: 79952817120     PISSN: 03091740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meatsci.2011.01.034     Document Type: Article

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