To identify Escherichia coli through the production of β-D-glucuronidase (GUD), 622 suspect cultures were isolated from chicken carcasses and plated in Petrifilm™ EC. Of these cultures, only 44 (7.1%) failed to produce GUD. This result indicates the usefulness of GUD production for estimating E. coli populations in chicken.

Despite the frequent reports of avian influenza A virus infections in dogs and cats, which have attracted the attention of veterinary practitioners and scientists in the respective fields of virology and epidemiology during the last decade, few reports are available regarding the natural exposure of dogs to low pathogenic viruses in field conditions. This may be important in the epidemiology of...

Campylobacter jejuni and C. coli are the leading causes of enteric infections in many developed countries. Healthy chickens are considered to act as reservoirs of campylobacters, as the organisms colonize the intestinal tract. Once infected birds enter a processing plant, contamination of chicken carcasses with campylobacters occurs over the entire skin during defeathering and evisceration due ...

This article presents a method for detecting skin tumors on chicken carcasses using hyperspectral fluorescence imaging data, which provide fluorescence information in both spectral and spatial dimensions. Since these two kinds of information are complementary to each other, it is necessary to exploit them in a synergistic manner. Chicken carcasses are examined first using spectral information, ...

A method is described for spray-rinse sampling the entire visceral cavity of broiler chicken carcasses for microbiological analyses. The method is designed to provide a more comprehensive sample than swabbing or excision of small areas.

This article presents a method for detecting skin tumors on chicken carcasses using hyperspectral fluorescence imaging data, which provide fluorescence information in both spectral and spatial dimensions. Since these two kinds of information are complementary to each other, it is necessary to exploit them in a synergistic manner. Chicken carcasses are examined first using spectral information, ...

Mapping the number and distribution of Salmonella on poultry carcasses will help guide better design of processing procedures to reduce or eliminate this human pathogen from poultry. A selective plating media with multiple antibiotics (xylose-lysine agar medium [XL] containing N-(2-hydroxyethyl)piperazine-N'-(2-ethanesulfonic acid) and the antibiotics chloramphenicol, ampicillin, tetracycline, ...

A mathematical model of chicken processing that quantitatively describes the transmission of Campylobacter on chicken carcasses from slaughter to chicken meat product has been developed in Nauta et al. (2005). This model was quantified with expert judgment. Recent availability of data allows updating parameters of the model to better describe processes observed in slaughterhouses. We propose Ba...

Mapping the number and distribution of Salmonella on poultry carcasses will help guide better design of processing procedures to reduce or eliminate this human pathogen from poultry. A selective plating media with multiple antibiotics (xylose-lysine agar medium [XL] containing N-( 2-hydrox yethyl)piperazineN'(2ethanesujfonic acid) and the antibiotics chioramphenicol, ampiciflin, tetracycline, a...