Competitive Growth of Chicken Skin Microflora and Clostridium botulinum Type E after an Irradiation Dose of 0.3 Mrad.

Chicken skins with chicken exudate were used as a model system to determine if low dose irradiation might cause a health hazard by eliminating the natural flora and allowing Clostridium botulinum type E spores, if present, to produce toxin in the absence of typical spoilage. Irradiation (0.3 Mrad, 5°C) reduced the natural flora from 10 to 10 to 10 to 500 cells/7 cm, whereas C.

Factors affecting inactivation of Moraxella-Acinetobacter cells in an irradiation process.

The effect of various stages of the irradiation processing of beef on the injury and inactivation of radiation-resistant Moraxella-Acinetobactor cells was studied. Moraxella-Acinetobacter cells were more resistant to heat inactivation and injury when heated in meat with salts (0.75% NaCl and 0.