Market surveillance for contamination with thermotolerant campylobacters on various categories of chicken meat in Switzerland

Journal of Food Protection

Volumn 74, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2048-2054

  Baumgartner, Andreas ^a   Felleisen, Richard ^a  

^a FEDERAL OFFICE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; CAMPYLOBACTER; CHICKEN; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD CONTROL; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MEAT; MICROBIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PRODUCT SAFETY; STANDARD; STATISTICS; SWITZERLAND;

ANIMALS; CAMPYLOBACTER; CHICKENS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; COMMERCE; CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; HUMANS; MEAT; PREVALENCE; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 82955193363     PISSN: 0362028X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4315/0362-028X.JFP-11-228     Document Type: Article

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