PMID- 21353746 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20110801 LR - 20151119 IS - 1873-4138 (Electronic) IS - 0309-1740 (Linking) VI - 88 IP - 3 DP - 2011 Jul TI - Treatment of cattle hides with Shellac solution to reduce hide-to-beef microbial transfer. PG - 498-502 LID - 10.1016/j.meatsci.2011.01.034 [doi] AB - The hide-to-beef microbial transfer-reducing effects of a novel Shellac treatment of hides (based on "on-hair immobilization" of microorganisms) were evaluated. In the hide-to-meat direct contact laboratory-based experiments, treatment of hides (of varying visual cleanliness) with Shellac produced significant microbial reductions on beef: up to 3.6 log(10) CFU/cm(2) of total viable count of bacteria (TVC), up to 2.5 log(10) CFU/cm(2) of Enterobacteriaceae (EC) and up to 1.7 log(10) CFU/cm(2) of generic Escherichia coli (GEC). In a small commercial abattoir under "bad-case" conditions (slaughtering dirty cattle, inadequate process hygiene), treatment of hides with Shellac produced significant microbial reductions on beef carcasses: 1.7 log(10) CFU/cm(2), 1.4 log(10) CFU/cm(2) and 1.3 log(10) CFU/cm(2) of TVC, EC and GEC, respectively. In both laboratory- and abattoir-based trials, TVC reductions on beef achieved by the Shellac hide treatment were superior to those achieved by the comparative sanitizer rinse-vacuum hide treatment, but reductions of EC and GEC did not differ significantly between the two hide treatments. CI - Copyright (c) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. FAU - Antic, D AU - Antic D AD - University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Trg D. Obradovica 8, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia. FAU - Blagojevic, B AU - Blagojevic B FAU - Buncic, S AU - Buncic S LA - eng PT - Comparative Study PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20110225 PL - England TA - Meat Sci JT - Meat science JID - 101160862 RN - 0 (Anti-Infective Agents, Local) RN - 0 (Pharmaceutical Vehicles) RN - 0 (Resins, Plant) RN - 3K9958V90M (Ethanol) RN - 46N107B71O (shellac) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Anti-Infective Agents, Local/*pharmacology MH - Cattle/*microbiology MH - Colony Count, Microbial MH - Enterobacteriaceae/*drug effects/isolation & purification MH - Escherichia coli/drug effects/isolation & purification MH - Ethanol MH - Food Microbiology MH - Foodborne Diseases/prevention & control MH - Gram-Negative Bacteria/drug effects/isolation & purification MH - Gram-Positive Bacteria/drug effects/isolation & purification MH - Meat/*microbiology MH - Meat-Packing Industry/*methods MH - Microbial Viability/drug effects MH - Pharmaceutical Vehicles MH - Random Allocation MH - Resins, Plant/*pharmacology MH - Serbia MH - Skin/*microbiology EDAT- 2011/03/01 06:00 MHDA- 2011/08/02 06:00 CRDT- 2011/03/01 06:00 PHST- 2010/12/01 00:00 [received] PHST- 2011/01/27 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2011/01/28 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2011/03/01 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2011/03/01 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2011/08/02 06:00 [medline] AID - S0309-1740(11)00047-7 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.meatsci.2011.01.034 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Meat Sci. 2011 Jul;88(3):498-502. doi: 10.1016/j.meatsci.2011.01.034. Epub 2011 Feb 25.