Monitoring of the cold chain compliance in a meal-processing facility through the correlation study between the outdoor temperatures and coliforms counts on raw meat

International Journal of Food Science and Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 928-935

  Nieri, Dino ^a   Pesavento, Giovanna ^b   Ducci, Barbara ^b   Calonico, Carmela ^b   Lo Nostro, Antonella ^b  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biological control; Cold chain; Food safety; Hazard Analysis of Critical Control Points; Microbiological quality assurance; Microbiological risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894250155     PISSN: 09505423     EISSN: 13652621     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ijfs.12377     Document Type: Article

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