Microbiologic evaluation of muscle surface of lamb carcasses in abbatoir during slaughter processes

• Grant number: 05/01795-0
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: December 01, 2005
• End date: May 31, 2007
• Field of knowledge: Agronomical Sciences - Veterinary Medicine - Products of Animal Origin Inspection
• Principal Investigator: Oswaldo Durival Rossi Junior
• Grantee: Oswaldo Durival Rossi Junior
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias e Veterinárias (FCAV). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Jaboticabal. Jaboticabal , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The study will be developed in a sheep slaughterhouse located in São Paulo state. The samples will be collected by swabs from muscle surfaces of forequater and hindquarter areas of the lamb s cacasses after dressing, evisceration and washing process. It will be done the total viable counts (mesophiles, psychrotrophics, and coliforms) and the identification of pathogenic microorganisms (E.coli, S.aureus and Salmonella sp.). (AU)