Distinguishing Common Food-Contaminating Bat Hairs from Certain Feather Barbules
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- 1 July 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of AOAC INTERNATIONAL
- Vol. 64 (4) , 786-791
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jaoac/64.4.786
Abstract
Differences are described between common food-contaminating vespertilionid bat hairs (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) and similar-appearing downy feather barbules of passeriform birds, including cuticular scales, pigment distribution, and basal characteristics. Fifteen imported food samples analyzed over a 1½ year period were contaminated with these bat hairs.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: