The potential for third party standards at manufacturing and retail to reduce the risk of listeriosis arising from consumption of Listeria monocytogenes from ready-to-eat foods

Food Control

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1503-1505

  Winkler, Anett ^a   Freund, Matilda ^b  

^a Kraft Jacobs Suchard R and D   (Germany)

^b Kraft General Foods   (United States)

Author keywords

Listeria; Processing; Third party standards

Indexed keywords

LISTERIA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES;

EID: 79955850346     PISSN: 09567135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodcont.2010.07.017     Document Type: Article

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