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<strong>Thermal</strong> <strong>Processing</strong> of Meat Products 169<br />

6.5.2.1 Escherichia coli O157:H7<br />

E. coli O157:H7 is considered a pathogen of significance in beef and ground beef<br />

products. Recently, E. coli O157:H7 and other enterohemorrhagic E. coli have<br />

emerged as prominent food-borne disease agents. Cattle are a reservoir of E. coli<br />

O157:H7, and the consumption of raw or undercooked beef has most often been<br />

associated with food-borne infections. Therefore, during the processing of meat<br />

products, thermal processes should be designed to eliminate this pathogen.<br />

Because this pathogen has similar growth and lethality characteristics as Salmonella<br />

spp., thermal processes developed for meat products target the elimination<br />

of Salmonella spp. rather than E. coli O157:H7. Similarly, pathogen modeling<br />

programs consider using Salmonella spp. as an indicator organism to model the<br />

survival/growth of this pathogen. USDA-FSIS based the lethality performance<br />

standards for processed products on this assumption. 27,28 D and Z values for E. coli<br />

O157:H7 had been determined in ground beef. 29<br />

6.5.2.2 Salmonella spp.<br />

Salmonella spp. is widely distributed in nature and is a major cause of food-borne<br />

illness in the U.S., and >95% of the nontyphoidal Salmonella outbreaks are foodborne.<br />

30 The growth rate of Salmonella spp. is substantially reduced at

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