@article {Rajkowski:November 2008:0362-028X:2278,
	author = "Rajkowski, Kathleen T.",
	title = "Radiation D10-Values on Thawed and Frozen Catfish and Tilapia for Finfish Isolates of Listeria monocytogenes",
	journal = "Journal of Food Protection®",
	volume = "71",
	year = "November 2008",
	abstract = "With the popularity of catfish and tilapia in the healthy diet, the consumption and harvesting of farm-raised finfish have increased. Since 1987 the pathogenic bacterium<I> Listeria monocytogenes</I> has been isolated from seafood, particularly farmraised catfish in the United States. Seafood isolates of<I> L. monocytogenes</I> are now available. In order to maintain the raw finfish product, nonthermal interventions to remove bacterial pathogens need to be evaluated using these isolates. A nonthermal intervention process, irradiation, was used to determine the destruct values of the<I> L. monocytogenes</I> seafood isolates along with a nonpathogenic<I> Listeria</I> strain and an<I> L. monocytogenes</I> strain previously studied. The irradiation destruct values were obtained for each individual isolate inoculated on raw and frozen catfish or tilapia irradiated at 4 or 10 C. The<I> D</I><SUB>radiation</SUB> values obtained for<I> L. monocytogenes</I> inoculated on raw or frozen catfish did not differ (<I>P</I> &#62; 0.05) from the values obtained for strains inoculated on the raw or frozen tilapia. The<I> D</I><SUB>radiation</SUB> -values ranged from 0.48 to 0.85 kGy, with an average of 0.62 0.09 kGy, which is typical for<I> Listeria.</I> The data obtained have identified a multi-isolate cocktail that can be used for future radiation inactivation studies for<I> L. monocytogenes</I> inoculated on finfish.",
	pages = "2278-2282(5)",
	url = "http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/iafp/jfp/2008/00000071/00000011/art00017"
}