sausages). No other studies on the use of hot water-lactic acid
decontamination treatments of incoming raw beef trimmings to
control Salmonella in fermented sausages have been published to
date. Treatments of raw meat cuts or trimmings unrelated to fermented
sausage production, based on using 2%e5% lactic acid solutions
at temperatures of up to 55 C applied either by spraying or
misting, resulted in Salmonella reductions varying between 0.2 and
1.6 log CFU (Echeverry et al., 2009; Harris et al., 2006). However,
these results cannot be directly compared with those from the
present study, for the same reasons indicated above for VTEC/STEC
reductions.