Biocontrol of pathogens in the meat chain

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Bacterial foodborne zoonotic diseases are of major concern, impacting public health and causing economic losses for the agricultural-food sector and the wider society. In the United States (US) alone foodborne illness from pathogens is responsible for 76 million cases of illnesses each year (Mead et al., 1999). Salmonella, Campylobacter jejuni and Enterohaemorraghic Escherichia coli (EHEC; predominately serotype O157:H7) and Listeria monocytogenes are the most predominant foodborne bacterial pathogens reported in the developed world (United States Department of Agriculture, 2001). The importance of meat and meat products as a vehicle of foodborne zoonotic pathogens cannot be underestimated (Center for Disease Control, 2006; Gillespie, O'Brien, Adak, Cheasty, & Willshaw, 2005; Mazick, Ethelberg, Nielsen, Molbak, & Lisby, 2006; Mead et al., 2006). © 2008 Springer New York.

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Burgess, C. M., Rivas, L., McDonnell, M. J., & Duffy, G. (2008). Biocontrol of pathogens in the meat chain. In Meat Biotechnology (pp. 253–288). Springer New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-79382-5_12

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