ABSTRACT: Pork head meat may harbor Salmonella and contaminate other carcass by-products during harvest and fabrication. A large pork processing plant in the United States was sampled…
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The Stomacher method, probably the most widely applied in the food industry, is rapid, does not come into physical contact with the diluted sample (does not require…
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Meat samples (10 g) were blended in a Stomacher® 400 for 90 s in 90 ml of 0.1% (w/v) peptone water. The high microbial loads found in this…
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