Evaluation of Antimicrobial Properties on the Surrogate Organism Enterococcus faecium for Validation of Spice Processing Controls
This document, revised in January 2022, is an evaluation of Enterococcus faecium as a potential surrogate for validation of spice processing controls and provides data demonstrating the relative inhibition of the proposed surrogate (Enterococcus faecium) and a group of non-typhoidal Salmonella enterica.
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