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Airborne Campylobacter in a Poultry Processing Plant
… is a foodborne pathogen commonly found in live poultry and raw poultry products. Identifying areas of contamination or modes of transmission during commercial processing can lead to strategies to reduce the level of Campylobacter on finished products. Monitoring levels of airborne Campylobacter …
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Alternative Waste Treatment System for Poultry Processing Plants
… wastewater treatment system for turkey processing plants to recover energy and reduce N and P to allowable discharge levels. The objective included: 1. Determine the quantity and quality of biogas produced from the turkey processing wastewater (TPW) and COD reduction efficiency. 2. …
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HACCP Assessment of Virginia Meat and Poultry Processing Plants
Fifty-eight meat and poultry plants in Virginia were assessed during spring and summer of 2000. These assessments were all conducted in the presence of state inspection and were designed to be non-regulatory. The audit team included N.G. Marriott, M.A. Tolbert and B.P. Quinn. The audits consisted …
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Decision Making Tools for Optimizing Environmental Sampling Plans for Listeria in Poultry Processing Plants
Meat and poultry slaughtering and processing practices have been associated with the microbial contamination with Listeria spp. Ready-to-eat poultry products have been considered as a primary agent associated with Listeria monocytogenes illness outbreaks. Developing environmental monitoring …
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Impact of Sanitizers on Salmonella enterica Contamination and Microbial Populations of Poultry Processing Reuse Water
… or established economies. In conventional poultry processing systems, access to water is particularly critical for the maintenance and disinfection of processing areas, as well as in processing operations such as scalding, chilling, and carcass washing. The need for sustainable alternatives …
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Fate and Effect of Peracetic Acid Solutions on Biological Wastewater Treatment Systems
… used in many industries, especially in poultry processing to control food-borne pathogens. Upsets of biological wastewater treatment processes and failures of whole effluent toxicity (WET) tests have been reported as potentially caused by the excessive use of PAA solutions. However, …
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Evaluation of an innovative, employee-driven sign on hand washing behavior changes using video observation
… messages. Surveys were conducted with meat and poultry processing employers in the mid-Atlantic region to determine food safety needs in the industry. Follow-up focus groups in both English (5) and Spanish (5) were conducted based on language availability and size. The most important food safety …
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Intervention Strategies to Reduce Foodborne Pathogens in Poultry During Grow-out and Processing
… perfringens can occasionally be traced to poultry sources. The development of intervention strategies that are applicable to different stages of poultry production can help lessen the level of these pathogens in poultry by-products and hence, reduce the incidence of poultry-borne food …
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Circuits of Power in Alabama's Immigration Politics: Labor Justice and Corporate Social Responsibility
… source for Alabama agri-businesses and food processing industries. The key question for this dissertation is: Why did the poultry processing industry, which has high populations of Latino employees and a significant industrial presence in Alabama, stay publicly silent despite a predictable …
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Using Critical Incidents: The Development of a Behaviorally Based Training Program for Supervisor Citizenship Behavior and Feedback Skills
… based training program for supervisors for a poultry processing organization. The training program content included displaying supervisor citizenship behavior and providing effective feedback. Examples of actual situations in the form of critical incidents were collected from incumbents …
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Risk Assessment for Listeria monocytogenes in Ready-to-eat Meat and Poultry Products
Various control methods used in the meat and poultry processing environment to mitigate listeriosis were evaluated using a dynamic in-plant Monte Carlo model. These control methods included food contact surface testing, sanitation, post-processing lethality treatment, and product formulation with …
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Campylobacter jejuni and Salmonella spp. Detection in Chicken Grow Out Houses by Environmental Sampling Methods
… foodborne pathogens commonly associated with raw poultry. Although there has been much research done on isolating these pathogens from poultry production environments using cloacal swabs, fecal samples, intestinal tract contents and dissection, research involving environmental sampling has been …
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Ultraviolet C Inactivation of <em>Salmonella enterica</em> in Raw Chicken Juice on Food Contact Surfaces with the Contamination Sanitization Inspection and Disinfection (CSI-D+) Device
… States, with outbreaks commonly associated with poultry products. The Contamination Sanitization Inspection and Disinfection (CSI-D+) device is a handheld portable system equipped with fluorescence imaging with dual operations of detection and disinfection of microorganisms on food contact …