Our objective was to simulate the pink color defect in cooked chicken breast meat with treatment combinations that would induce measurable changes in the conditions of raw meat. In addition, the feasibility of using induced raw meat conditions to develop a logistic regression model for prediction of pinking was studied. Approximately 960 breast fillets from 2 plants with 2 replications were use...

Variations in texture were determined for 10 day aged raw and cooked Longissimus thoracis (LT) muscle from 436 bulls of 15 European cattle breeds slaughtered at an age of 13-16 months. Variations in texture were related to differences in pH 24 h post-mortem, sarcomere length, collagen characteristics and lipid content. The shear force of cooked meat samples varied from 43.8 to 67.4 N/cm². Simme...

The present study was performed to assess the presence of Enterobacteriaceae in raw meat and handlers in Egypt using cultivation and matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS). A total of 100 raw meat samples (chicken and beef meat, 50 each) were randomly purchased from butchers and local meat retailers located at Mansoura city, Egypt. Fifty huma...

BACKGROUND To assess the possibility of VRE transmission from animals to humans, we studied the prevalence of vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) in farm animals, raw chicken meat, and healthy people. We then determined the molecular relatedness of VRE isolates between animals and humans in Korea. METHODS We aimed to isolate VRE from 150 enterococci specimens of farm animals, 15 raw chicke...

Contact with raw meat could represent a risk for Toxocara infection. We assessed the association of Toxocara infection with an occupation of meat worker though a case-control seroprevalence study of 124 meat workers and 248 subjects without this occupation. Sera of participants was analyzed for the presence of anti-Toxocara IgG antibodies. One (0.8%) of the 124 meat workers, and 5 (2.0%) of the...

and Implication Packaging, irradiation, and the length of storage of raw meat were important factors in lipid oxidation of cooked meat. Preventing oxygen exposure after cooking, however, was more important in preventing lipid oxidation of cooked meat than the raw meat treatments. Cooking itself did not increase thiobarbituric acid-reactive substances (TBARS) values. The structural damages cause...

BACKGROUND Escherichia coli O157:H7 (E. coli O157:H7) is now recognized as a major cause of diarrhoea, hemorrhagic colitis and hemolytic-uremic syndrome worldwide. Consumption of raw or undercooked meat of bovine origin has been the most common means of transmitting this organism. METHODOLOGY Over a period of 7 months (October 2006 to April 2007), a total of 738 raw meat samples were collecte...

Forty-eight, 27-week-old White Leghorn hens were fed a diet containing 0, 1.25, 2.5 or 5.0% conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) for 12 weeks. At the end of the 12-week feeding trial, hens were slaughtered, and boneless, skinless breast and leg meats were separated from carcasses. Meats were ground through 9 and 3-mm plates, and patties were prepared. Patties prepared from each dietary treatment were...

Epidemiologic investigation of our case-patients that included questioning relatives, patients, and butchers found that eating raw horse meat imported from Canada (patient 1) or Brazil (patient 2) was the most likely source of the parasites. The geographic origin of the horse meat eaten by patient 3 is unknown. Moreover, an atypical T. gondii strain was isolated after mouse inoculation with hor...