Industrial application of an antilisterial strain of Lactobacillus sakei as a protective culture and its effect on the sensory acceptability of cooked, sliced, vacuum-packaged meats
- 24 May 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier BV in International Journal of Food Microbiology
- Vol. 66 (3), 191-196
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0168-1605(00)00519-5
Abstract
The application of a protective lactic acid bacterium (LAB) during the commercial production of cooked meat products is described. The LAB, a strain of Lactobacillus sakei, was previously isolated from cooked ham and inhibited growth of Listeria monocytogenes and Escherichia coli O157:H7 in this product. L. sakei was applied to the cooked products at a concentration of 105–106 cfu/g immediately before slicing and vacuum-packaging using a hand-operated spraying bottle. The LAB strain inhibited growth of 103 cfu/g of a cocktail of three rifampicin resistant mutant L. monocytogenes strains both at 8°C and 4°C. Consumer acceptance tests of cooked ham and of servelat sausage, a Norwegian non-fermented cooked meat sausage, showed that control and inoculated products were equally acceptable. The products were still acceptable after storage for 28 days at 4°C and, after opening the packages, for a further 5 days at 4°C. The findings presented here confirm that the L. sakei strain is suitable for use as a protective culture and may technically easily be implemented in the commercial production of cooked meat products.Keywords
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