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PhD Vermeiren Lieve Compleet - Hogeschool Gent

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study. The results from the case-study could then be used to derive general conclusions on<br />

this biopreservation technology.<br />

In the final chapter (Chapter 8) of this <strong>PhD</strong>-work, preservation of cooked meat products by<br />

means of bacteriophages was introduced as an additional subject of research.<br />

The outline of this work is schematically presented in Figure 0.1. The following subobjectives<br />

of this work can be stipulated:<br />

• Sub-objective 1<br />

Before starting this <strong>PhD</strong>-work, it was of primary importance to study the existing<br />

knowledge in literature concerning antagonistic micro-organisms for biopreservation of<br />

food products (Chapter 1).<br />

• Sub-objective 2<br />

In chapter 2, collected and isolated meat born lactic acid bacteria were tested for their<br />

suitability to be candidate protective cultures for cooked meat products. Besides testing<br />

whether the cultures had a ‘protective’ activity, they also needed to be adapted to the<br />

product/storage conditions (psychrotrophic character, salt tolerance). Furthermore, it was<br />

of primary concern to evaluate, already at this early stage of the work, the effect of the<br />

cultures on the sensory properties of a model cooked meat product.<br />

• Sub-objective 3<br />

Chapter 3 aimed to better understand spoilage caused by different types of spoilage<br />

organisms, associated with vacuum packaged sliced CMP. The systematic study on the<br />

behaviour of several spoilage organisms on a model product, imitating cooked ham, was<br />

meant to establish the relationship between microbial growth, pH-evolution, metabolite<br />

formation and the occurrence of organoleptic deviations.<br />

• Sub-objective 4<br />

Chapter 4 had the objective to examine the interaction between the candidate protective<br />

cultures, that had been selected in chapter 2, and the spoilage organisms, that were shown<br />

to be most relevant for anaerobically packaged sliced CMP in chapter 3. Chapter 4 aimed<br />

to answer the question: can homofermentative non-bacteriocinogenic lactic acid bacteria<br />

be used to prolong the shelf-life of CMP?<br />

Introduction and objectives viii

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