United States Department of Agriculture: Agricultural Research Service, Lincoln, Nebraska
Roman L. Hruska U.S. Meat Animal Research Center: Reports
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Date of this Version
1996
Document Type
Article
Citation
Published in Letters in Applied Microbiology (1996) 23: 61 -63.
Abstract
A steam-vacuum sanitizer reduced aerobic plate counts associated with bovine faecal cantamination from 5·5 log10 cfu cm-2 to 3·0 ± 0·21 log10 cfu cm-2 on beef carcass short plates. The same beef carcass short plates inoculated with 7·6 ± 0·09 log10 cfu cm-2 Escherichia coli 0157:H7 in faeces, yielded an average residual level of E. coli 0157:H7 of 2·1 ± 0·21 log10 cfu cm-2 after steam-vacuum treatments. This study deomonstrates the effectiveness of a steam vacuum sanitizer for removing E. coli 0157:H7 from beef carcasses.