| Title: | University Professor |
| Department: | Animal Science
Food Science and Human Nutrition |
| Organization: |
Iowa State University
College of Agriculture
Animal Science
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| Address: | 215C Meat Lab
Ames, IA 50011
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| Phone: | 515-294-1091 |
| Fax: | 515-294-6328 |
| E-mail: | sebranek@iastate.edu |
| Web Site: | http://www.ans.iastate.edu/
faculty/sebranek.html
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| Emphases: | Food Safety (Post-Harvest)
Food Safety (Pre-Harvest)
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His research efforts are directed at meat processing technology and ingredient uses that impact food safety and human health. With the Consortium, he has been studying the effectiveness of organic acid treatments for the decontamination of pork carcasses prior to chilling. The emphasis has been on methods that may offer opportunity to suppress the incidence and/or growth of foodborne pathogens that originate with pork carcasses. The objective is to reduce the initial contamination level in such a way as to impact the microbial numbers through the remainder of the handling, fabrication and storage sequences normally used for pork products. |
