Determinação da microbiota da carne ovina tratada com ácido acético, embalada à vácuo e maturada

• Autor(a) principal: Vasconcelos, Elayne Cardoso de
• Data de Publicação: 2000
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC)
• Texto Completo: http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/17362
• topic: Tecnologia de alimentos; Contaminação microbiológica; Embalagens; Ovinos; Microbiological contamination; Packaging; Sheep

The objective of this study was to verify the effect of 1% acetic acid on the microbial condition of aged lamb meat. The experiment used five undefined breed (SRD) wethers, with 1 year of age. After slaughter the carcasses were chilled at 0ºC and kept for 12 h. Samples for microbiological analysis were collected from the surface of shoulder, neck, breast, loin, leg and the ventral side of the flank. These surfaces were evaluated for mesophiles and total and fecal coliform microrganisms. Shoulders were then separated from the carcass and cut to standard weight slices, from the proximal to the distal region of the cut. The right side shoulder slices were dipped in 1% acetic acid solution for 1 min and the left side shoulder slices were dipped in distilled water (control). The slices were individually vacuum packaged in a film, with low permeability to oxygen and then stored at 1ºC. On days 3, 13, 23, 33 and 48 of the aging period samples (5 trated with 1% acetic acid and 5 control) were collected, to be analyzed for total plate count, mould and yeast, sulfite-reduzing clostridia, total and fecal coliforms and Salmonella. There was no difference (P>0.05) in surface microrganism counts among different locations in the lamb carcass. Related to the aging of meat trated with acetic acid it was observed a decrease (P<0.05) in mesophiles count on trated samples with 13 and 23 days of aging. At 3 and 13 days of aging occurred a significant (P<0.05) decrease of psicrophylic organisms in meats treated with acetic acid. However at 23, 33 and 48 days of storage this effect was not observed. There were a decrease (P<0.05) in moulds and yeast counts is samples treated with acid. Mould andyeast counts were smaller (P<0.05) at day 13 than those at days 33 and 48 days of aging. Only at day 3 of aging treated samples showed lower (P<0.05) total coliform counts than samples with no acid. Meat samples treated with 1% acetic acid showed lower (P<0.05) fecal coliform counts than samples with no acid. It was observed absence of sulfite-reduzing clostridia in all samples independent of acid treatment or aging time. The presence of Salmonella detected in 20% of the treated samples and in 24% of the untreated ones. Meat pH values were lower (P<0.05) on days 3, 23 and 33 than on days 13 and 48 of aging. Results suggest that proper slaughter conditions in Northeast Brasil produce lamb carcasses with acceptable counts of microrganisms. Deeping of meat cuts in 1% acetic acid solution followed by vacuum packazing is appropriate to age meat at 1ºC for 13 days. This treatment keeps low levels of psicrofilic counts, allows a sound higienic condition of the meat but it is not enough to inhibit the presence of Salmonella.