THE EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE MISHANDLING AT VARIOUS TIMES DURING STORAGEON DETECTION OF TEMPERATURE ABUSE OF FRESH BROILER CHICKEN CARCASSES

Citation
Sm. Russell et al., THE EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE MISHANDLING AT VARIOUS TIMES DURING STORAGEON DETECTION OF TEMPERATURE ABUSE OF FRESH BROILER CHICKEN CARCASSES, Poultry science, 75(2), 1996, pp. 261-264
Citations number
9
Categorie Soggetti
Agriculture Dairy & AnumalScience
Journal title
ISSN journal
00325791
Volume
75
Issue
2
Year of publication
1996
Pages
261 - 264
Database
ISI
SICI code
0032-5791(1996)75:2<261:TEOTMA>2.0.ZU;2-1
Abstract
Experiments were conducted to determine the effect that temperature mi shandling at various times during storage has on detection of temperat ure abuse of fresh broiler chicken carcasses using populations of meso philic and coliform bacteria as indicators of abuse. Forty-five broile r carcasses were used in each of three independent trials. Five carcas ses were analyzed at day of collection (Treatment 0 control). Five car casses, on each day of the next 7 d (Treatments 1 to 7) were temperatu re-abused for 12 h at 25 C, stored at 3 C until Day 9, and then sample d. The five remaining carcasses were stored at 3 C and sampled on Day 9 (Treatment 8 control). Carcasses were sampled using a whole carcass rinse procedure and assayed for aerobic plate counts (APC), total coli form counts (TCC), impedance detection times (DT), and impedance colif orm detection times (DTCM). Although significant differences were note d using all four microbiological methods, temperature abuse at differe nt times during storage had no consistent effect on populations of mes ophilic or coliform bacteria; therefore, temperature abuse determinati ons may be conducted without regard to the day on which the carcasses were subjected to elevated temperatures.