Food Worker Personal Hygiene Requirements during Harvesting, Processing, and Packaging of Plant Products

Microbial Hazard Identification in Fresh Fruit and Vegetables

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 115-153

  Michaels, Barry ^a   Todd, Ewen ^b  

^a B Michaels Group Inc   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Microbial hazards relevant to worker hygiene; Personal hygiene in HACCP system; Worker personal hygiene in plant product processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889787369     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/0470007761.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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