Quantification of Nonproteolytic Clostridium botulinum Spore Loads in Food Materials.

ABSTRACT: We have produced data and developed analysis to build representations for the concentration of spores of nonproteolytic Clostridium botulinum in materials that are used during the manufacture of minimally processed chilled foods in the United Kingdom. Food materials are categorized into homogenous groups which include meat, fish, shellfish, cereals, fresh plant material, dairy liquid, dairy nonliquid, mushroom and fungi, and dried herbs and spices. Models are constructed in a Bayesian framework and represent a combination of information from a literature survey of spore loads from positive-control experiments that establish a detection limit and from dedicated microbiological tests for real food materials. The detection of nonproteolytic C. botulinum employed an optimized protocol that com

SUBMITTER: Barker GC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4784027 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature