Meat Decontamination

Handbook of Meat Processing

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 43-85

  Skandamis, Panagiotis N ^a   Nychas, George John E ^a   Sofos, John N ^b  

^a AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical dehairing of cattle hides, a patented process; Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) of United States Department of Agriculture (USDA); Legislative aspects of decontamination; Meat decontamination; Pre evisceration interventions washing with cold or hot water and or rinsing with chemical solutions; Sanitation standard operating procedures (SSOP) and hazard analysis critical control point (HACCP) system; Spot carcass decontamination treatments; Steam hot water vacuuming; Strict hygienic measures applied during animal transportation to abattoir; Thermal decontamination

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953057085     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780813820897.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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