ABSTRACT
Kemp and others in 2001 reported that ASC (Sanova, now sold by Ecolab) performed exceedingly well. ’e researchers reported that fecally contaminated carcasses that were treated with Sanova had significantly lower microbial levels than those that were fecally contaminated and manually reprocessed. In fact, Escherichia coli and Campylobacter were reduced by 1.78 and 1.75 log10 more when online reprocessed as compared with manual reprocessing, and Salmonella prevalence was 21.6% less for the online-processed carcasses. ’ese data suggest that OLR is far superior to off-line manual reprocessing. Moreover, the online-reprocessed chickens were microbiologically superior to inspection-passed carcasses. ’is is a huge incentive for the USDA-FSIS to encourage the use of OLR.
