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Importance of Photobacterium phosphoreum in relation to spoilage of modified atmosphere‐packed fish products
Author(s) -
Dalgaard P.,
Mejlholm O.,
Christiansen T.J.,
Huss H.H.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
letters in applied microbiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.698
H-Index - 110
eISSN - 1472-765X
pISSN - 0266-8254
DOI - 10.1046/j.1472-765x.1997.00152.x
Subject(s) - photobacterium phosphoreum , food spoilage , biology , modified atmosphere , photobacterium , fish <actinopterygii> , fish products , food science , smoked fish , microbiology and biotechnology , shelf life , fishery , vibrio , bacteria , genetics
Occurrence and growth of Photobacterium phosphoreum were studied in 20 experiments with fresh fish from Denmark, Iceland and Greece. The organism was detected in all marine fish species but not in fish from fresh water. Growth of P. phosphoreum to high levels (>10 7 cfu g −1 ) was observed in most products and the organism is likely to be of importance for spoilage of several modified atmosphere‐packed (MAP) marine fish species when stored at chill temperatures. Some microbiological methods recommended for control of fish products by national and international authorities are inappropriate for detection of psychrotolerant and heat‐labile micro‐organisms like P. phosphoreum . These methods have been used in many previous studies of MAP fish and this could explain why, contrary to the findings in the present study, P. phosphoreum in general was not detected previously in spoiled MAP fish.