Listeria monocytogenes in ready-to-eat vacuum and modified atmosphere packaged meat and fish products of Estonian origin at retail level

Food Control

Volumn 67, Issue , 2016, Pages 48-52

  Kramarenko, Toomas ^a,b   Roasto, Mati ^a   Keto Timonen, Riikka ^c   Mäesaar, Mihkel ^a,b   Meremäe, Kadrin ^a   Kuningas, Maiu ^b   Hörman, Ari ^d   Korkeala, Hannu ^c  

^a ESTONIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Estonia)

^b Veterinary and Food Laboratory   (Estonia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d FINNISH DEFENCE FORCES   (Finland)

Author keywords

Counts; Listeria monocytogenes; Prevalence; RTE fish products; RTE meat products

Indexed keywords

EID: 84959378838     PISSN: 09567135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodcont.2016.02.034     Document Type: Article

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