Microbial Flora of Vacuum-Packaged Lamb with Special Reference to Psychrotrophic, Gram-Positive, Catalase-Positive Pleomorphic Rods
- 1 February 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier in Journal of Food Protection
- Vol. 40 (2) , 98-100
- https://doi.org/10.4315/0362-028x-40.2.98
Abstract
Wholesale cuts of lamb (loins, legs) were packaged in polyvinyl chloride (PVC) film and in two other types of packages with oxygen transmission rates (cc/100 in2/24 h) of 0.41–0.75 and 2.28 respectively, Psychrotrophic counts were low (2 × 10-1.1 × 103 per in2) intially and after storage for 21 days increased to 103-1.6 × 105 per in2) Initially Corynebacterium species and Microbacterium thermosphactum were dominant. Upon refrigerated storage for 21 days, Lactobacillus, Pseudomonas, and Moraxella-Acinetobacter sp. became more significant. Among the Corynebacterium sp., buff-colored isolates, consisting of long, gram-positive pleomorphic rods in palisades were dominant.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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