PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL
INTERVENTION STRATEGIES
In response to demands from consumers for safer meat
and poultry products and implementation of government
regulations, numerous studies testing possible interventions
have been conducted, particularly over the last 10
yr. A wide variety of approaches to sanitize meat and
poultry products after harvesting (Conner et al., 2001;
Mermelstein, 2001; Huffman, 2002; White, 2002) have
been developed and include, in part, cold and hot water