The relationship between hide cleanliness and bacterial numbers on beef carcasses at a commercial abattoir
Open Access
- 1 May 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Letters in Applied Microbiology
- Vol. 30 (5) , 390-395
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1472-765x.2000.00739.x
Abstract
Cattle were visually inspected in the lairage of a commercial abattoir and assigned to a category ranging from 1 (very clean) to 5 (very dirty) depending on the observed cleanliness of the hide. Anim...Keywords
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