BACTERIOLOGICAL EVALUATION OF GROUPS OF BEEF CARCASSES BEFORE THE WASH AT 6 ALBERTA ABATTOIRS

被引:8
作者
JERICHO, KWF
BRADLEY, JA
KOZUB, GC
机构
[1] FOOD PROD & INSPECT BRANCH,CALGARY,AB,CANADA
[2] RES BRANCH,STAT UNIT,RES STN,LETHBRIDGE,AB,CANADA
来源
JOURNAL OF APPLIED BACTERIOLOGY | 1994年 / 77卷 / 06期
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D O I
10.1111/j.1365-2672.1994.tb02811.x
中图分类号
Q81 [生物工程学(生物技术)]; Q93 [微生物学];
学科分类号
071005 ; 0836 ; 090102 ; 100705 ;
摘要
A method has been developed for the bacteriological evaluation of groups of beef carcasses which can be used to measure the degree of control over hygiene during hide removal and carcass dressing in abattoirs. This method, which enumerates aerobic mesophilic bacteria automatically using a hydrophobic grid membrane filter, was applied at six abattoirs. Two hundred excision samples (5 x 5 x 0.5 cm) were taken at 10 sites on the external surface of a group of 20 carcasses (five carcasses were sampled on each of four consecutive daily visits) for group-carcass evaluation at each abattoir. For each abattoir, the mean log(10) Most Probable Number of Growth Units (MPNGU) and between-carcass variance component were obtained for each site and the average over sites. Using the average within-abattoir variance of this study and previously published studies involving 76 additional carcasses Jericho et al. 1993), it was determined that 20 carcasses are more than adequate to estimate the mean log(10) MPNGU per cm(2) within 0.5 units at a site. The distribution of the log(10) MPNGU per cm(2) over the 10 sites was compared for the abattoirs, and sites were found to cluster into 2-4 homogenous groups. The means over sites of log(10) MPNGU per cm(2) for the abattoirs ranged from 1.52 to 2.64 and were unrelated to line speed.
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