Seek and destroy process: Listeria monocytogenes process controls in the ready-to-eat meat and poultry industry

Journal of Food Protection

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 436-445

  Malley, Thomas J V ^a   Butts, John ^b   Wiedmann, Martin ^a  

^a Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

^b Land o'Frost Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LISTERIA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES;

ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; EVALUATION STUDY; FAST FOOD; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD HANDLING; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; MICROBIOLOGY; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; FAST FOODS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD HANDLING; HUMANS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84922649630     PISSN: 0362028X     EISSN: 19449097     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4315/0362-028X.JFP-13-507     Document Type: Article

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