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| Title |
Effects of slaughtering operations on carcass contamination in an Irish pork production plant
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| Published in |
Irish Veterinary Journal, January 2014
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| DOI | 10.1186/2046-0481-67-1 |
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| Authors |
Paul Wheatley, Efstathios S Giotis, Aideen I McKevitt |
| Abstract |
Microbiological standards within pork slaughter processing plants in the European Union are currently governed by Commission Regulation (EC) 2073/2005, which describes detailed performance criteria at specific stages of the procedure (following carcass dressing and before chilling) for total viable counts (TVC), Enterobacteriaceae (EB) and Salmonella spp. In this study, 95 carcasses from an Irish pork slaughter plant were sampled by swabbing 100 cm2 of surface at three sites (belly, ham, jowl) to examine the effects of eight processing stages (stunning, bleeding, scalding, singeing, polishing, evisceration, final inspection and chilling) on contamination levels. |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 67 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Spain | 1 | 1% |
| Botswana | 1 | 1% |
| Denmark | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 64 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 12 | 18% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 8 | 12% |
| Researcher | 7 | 10% |
| Student > Bachelor | 6 | 9% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 6 | 9% |
| Other | 15 | 22% |
| Unknown | 13 | 19% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 21 | 31% |
| Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine | 12 | 18% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 5 | 7% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 4 | 6% |
| Environmental Science | 3 | 4% |
| Other | 6 | 9% |
| Unknown | 16 | 24% |