To evaluate the effect of cooled and chlorinated chill water for Campylobacter and coliforms at a middle-size processing plant which was considered to be difficult for eliminate pathogenic bacteria on carcasses, following three conditions were examined; keeping temperature at < 20, < 10 and < 10°C, and chlorine concentration at < 50, < 50 and 50 to 70 ppm during processing in experiment 1, 2 an...

Because fish represent the principal methylmercury (MeHg) pool in the water column of freshwater systems, MeHg released from their carcasses could represent an important flux to the environment. Necrophagous invertebrates such as fly larvae can play an important role in this Hg recycling. We studied Hg accumulation by blowflies (Diptera, Calliphoridae) feeding on beached fish carcasses in the f...

A key to 24 Staphylinidae species associated with decaying carcasses in Argentina is presented, including diagnoses, illustrations, distributional and bionomical data for these species. This article provides a table of all species associated with carcasses, detailing the substrate from which they were collected and geographical distribution by province. All 24 Staphylinidae species recorded are...

background the genus-listeria has two pathogenic species namely, listeria monocytogenes and listeria ivanovii. of these, l. monocytogenes is a well-known cause of abortion, encephalitis and septicaemia in man and animals. listeria ivanovii is an animal pathogen and in rare cases causes human infection. contamination of ovine carcasses during the slaughter and processing is a major risk for food...

background: bovine cysticercosis is one of the most important parasitic diseases caused by the metacestode stage of the human tapeworm taenia saginata. the public health and economic consequences of this parasite may be considerable due to downgrading and the condemnation of carcasses. therefore, this survey was designed to estimate the prevalence, economic losses and food safety importance of ...

Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli are the most important human enteropathogens among the campylobacters. The objective of this study was to determine how diversity in Campylobacter populations found on chicken carcasses collected from 17 broiler processing plants in the United States is impacted by processing. Genetic diversity was determined for up to four isolates per carcass by seq...

A comparison of techniques for detecting the presence of Cysticercus bovis in bovine carcasses was made by using carcass dissection and routine beef inspection guidelines. In the study, 28 calves were used after they were tested and found to be negative for the presence of anti-C. bovis serum antibodies and were inoculated orally with aliquots containing 6×10(4) Taenia saginata eggs. One hundre...

Ninety-two swine averaging 104 +/- 4.5 kg and 99 cold carcasses averaging 75 +/- 3.1 kg were measured with a four-terminal plethysmograph. Pigs were transported to the abattoir, fasted 4 h, weighted, and measured for body resistance (Rs, omega), body reactance (Xc, omega), and distance (L, cm) between detector terminals that were located along the dorsal axis of the animal. Pigs were slaughtere...

Cut-out data from 2,550 steer carcasses representing British, Continental and Zebu breeding were analyzed to evaluate yield grade classes based on three equations: 1) Ya = 2.5 + .984 AFT + .0084 HCW - .05 REA + .2 KPF; 2) Yb = same as Ya with intercept changed to 3.2 and KPF deleted; 3) Yc = 3.0 + .984 AFT + .0041 HCW - .03 REA, as proposed by USDA in 1984; where AFT = adjusted fat thickness (c...

and Implications In January 1997, the USDA-FSIS mandated Escherichia coli (EC) testing in all processing plants to monitor surface contamination of beef, pork, and poultry carcasses. A novel technique that uses membrane filtration (MF) and m-ColiBlue24 (mCB) to determine the amount of EC contamination on a carcass was developed. Sponges from pork carcasses and excision samples from beef carcass...