Effects Of Time And Temperature On The Viability Of Toxoplasma Gondii Tissue Cysts In Enhanced Pork Loin
August 23, 2006 — Hill, D.E.; Benedetto, S.M.C.; Coss, C.; McCrary, J.L.; Fournet, V.M.; Dubey, J.P.
A study was conducted to evaluate the effect of injecting pork loins with solutions containing sodium chloride or potassium or sodium lactate on the infectivity of Toxoplasm gondii.
Enhanced or pumped pork products represent a significant proportion (40 to 50%) of the commercially available pork cuts available to consumers at the retail level. In a previous study, pork loins containing viable Toxoplasma gondii tissue cysts were pumped with solutions containing 2% sodium chloride or 1.4% or higher potassium or sodium lactate and stored at 4°C for 7 days. This treatment prevented transmission of T. gondii to cats.
In the present study, enhanced pork loins were stored for 0, 8, 16, 24, 32, or 40 h at 4°C and then fed to T. gondii-seronegative cats to determine how quickly the loss of tissue cyst viability occurred. In a second experiment, pork loins collected from pigs experimentally infected with T. gondii were stored at temperatures found in retail meat cases and then fed to T. gondii-seronegative cats to determine the effect of typical meat case storage temperatures on tissue cyst viability. In both experiments, cat feces were examined for 14 days after the infected meat meal to assess oocyst shedding.
The results indicate that solutions containing 2% sodium chloride or 1.4% potassium or sodium lactate are effective within 8 h of injection for killing T. gondii tissue cysts in pork loins and that storage at meat case temperatures at or below 0°C (32°F) for 7 days also killed T. gondii tissue cysts in pork loins.
Source: Aug. 1 , 2006 Journal of Food Protection Volume 69, Number 8, pp. 1961-1965(5)
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