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Psychrotroph counts of the beef carcass surface before and after the hot water wash intervention and 24 h chilling period. The horizontal line within the box plot represents the median. The box upper and lower limits represent the interquartile range, and the bars represent the 1.5xInterquartile Range. a,b Box plots with different letters are significantly different (p < 0.05).
