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. 2020 Jun 26;99(9):4539–4548. doi: 10.1016/j.psj.2020.05.043

Table 6.

Recovery of Salmonella from poultry processing equipment of different processing plants after sanitization.

Processing step	Location¹	Prevalence (%)
First processing (kill line)	Head puller	27.8^a
	Picker	27.8^a
	Scalder	27.8^a
First rehang	First rehang	0.0^b
First processing (evis line)	Cropper	33.3^a
	Eviscerator	0.0^b
Second rehang	Second rehang shackle	0.0^b
	Second rehang table	0.0^b
Second processing	Debone belt	11.1^a,b
	Hand saw	0.0^b
	Halver	0.0^b
	Leg quarter hopper	11.1^a,b
	Saddle halver	0.0^b
	Wing cutter	0.0^b
	X-ray belt	0.0^b

^a,bSuperscripts indicate significant differences. N = 18, SEM = 7.93, P = 0.0002.

¹

Equipment within each processing plants sampled. Means with different.