SURVEY OF RESIDENTIAL REFRIGERATORS FOR THE PRESENCE OF LISTERIA-MONOCYTOGENES

Authors
JACKSON TC ACUFF GR LUCIA LM PRASAI RK BENNER RA TERRY CT
Citation
Tc. Jackson et al., SURVEY OF RESIDENTIAL REFRIGERATORS FOR THE PRESENCE OF LISTERIA-MONOCYTOGENES, Journal of food protection, 56(10), 1993, pp. 874-875
Citations number
12
Categorie Soggetti
Food Science & Tenology","Biothechnology & Applied Migrobiology
Journal title
Journal of food protection → ACNP
ISSN journal
0362028X
Volume
56
Issue
10
Year of publication
1993
Pages
874 - 875
Database
ISI
SICI code
0362-028X(1993)56:10<874:SORRFT>2.0.ZU;2-#
Abstract
One hundred and ninety-five residential refrigerators in Brazos and Ro bertson counties of Texas were examined for the presence of Listeria m onocytogenes. Surfaces on which meat and vegetables were usually store d, as well as other storage areas, were sampled. L. monocytogenes was not recovered from any of the refrigerators sampled. The organism, if introduced, may only be a transient inhabitant of refrigerator surface s, as long-term colonization of such surfaces does not seem to be a co mmon occurrence.