Staphylococcus aureus is a pathogen bacterium commonly
associated with serious outbreaks of food poisoning attributed
to contaminated meat products (8, 23). Staphylococcal
enterotoxins form a family of major serological types of heatstable
enterotoxins that cause vomiting and diarrhoea when
ingested and are responsible for staphylococcal food poisoning
(26). Since staphylococcal foodborne intoxication is
established as one of the most common bacterial food-borne
diseases causing problems in the food sector in many countries,
strategies to control S. aureus in foods are of particular interest.
Food conservation is based on a search for foods with a
high nutritional quality and microbial stability and it has been
reached by the use of various physical and/or chemical
procedures (9). However, there is a current demand from