1 A predictive shelf life model as a tool for the improvement of quality management in pork and poultry chains ICPMF 7 – Dublin 2011 Stefanie Bruckner , Antonia Albrecht, Verena Raab, Rolf Ibald, Brigitte Petersen and Judith Kreyenschmidt Cold Chain Management Group Department Preventive Health Management
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A predictive shelf life model as a tool for the improvement of quality management in pork and poultry chains
N(t): microbial count [cfu/g] at time t B: relative growth rate at time M [1/h] A: initial bacterial count [cfu/g] M: reversal point [h] C: difference between Nmax (= maximum population level) and A [cfu/g] t: time [h] (Gibson et al., 1987)
B: relative growth rate at time M [1/h] F: pre-exponential factor [1/h] R: gas constant = 8.314 J/mol K T: absolute temperature [K] Ea: activation energy for bacterial growth [kJ/mol]
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Development of the common predictive model
Combination of primary and secondary model
Division of the time-temperature history of the product into several assumed time-temperature intervals with constant storage temperatures
Growth can be predicted with the Gompertz model in each interval – Nmax: means of observed maximum bacterial counts
– A: observed initial bacterial counts
– B: obtained from the Arrhenius plot
– M: derived from linear regression of M against temperature for the first interval (calculated with Gompertz for the other intervals)
Material and methods
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Growth of Pseudomonas spp. at constant temperatures
(primary modeling) Results
Good description of Pseudomonas spp. growth with the Gompertz function (R² ≥ 0.94 for both meat types)
High significant correlations between Pseudomonas spp. counts and sensory attributes (r > -0.90; p < 0.05)
Determination of a common spoilage level of 7.5 log10 CFU/g
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Growth of Pseudomonas spp. at constant temperatures
(primary modeling)
B and µmax increasing with increasing storage temperature Longer shelf life for pork than for poultry at all investigated constant storage
temperature Comparable decrease of shelf life with increasing temperatures
Similar microbiological spoilage processes for fresh pork and fresh poultry at constant storage temperatures
Temp. [ C]
B [1/h]
µmax
[1/h] Shelf life
[h]
pork poultry pork poultry pork poultry
2 0.012 0.014 0.032 0.034 165.8 126.4
4 0.018 0.020 0.043 0.041 122.2 98.6
7 0.025 0.033 0.054 0.081 92.9 63.9
10 0.033 0.058 0.086 0.121 75.4 41.5
15 0.051 0.103 0.130 0.212 45.5 27.1
Results
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Arrheniusplot (secondary modeling)
Good description of the temperature dependency of the growth rates with the Arrhenius equation (R² = 0.98 for pork, R² = 0.99 for poultry)
Results
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Model development
Good linearity of the fits of M values against temperature (R² = 0.97 for pork, R² = 0.94 for poultry) enabled the calculation of an adequate M value for the first interval in dynamic storage scenarios
Results
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Model development
B and M values for poultry could be related to pork values by linear fitting
Fits were good with R² values of 0.98 (for B) and 0.998 (for M)
Similar spoilage processes for fresh pork and fresh poultry → enabled the development of a common predictive shelf life model
Predictions for both meat types matched to the observations
Incorporation of the common shelf life model as well as the TTI
kinetic model in a freely accessible software → calculation of remaining shelf life of the product at specific
control points along the chill chain
• BUT: still several existing challenges before a practical application
Summary
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Thank you for your attention!!
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The study was partly financed by the EU project Chill-On (FP6-016333-2) and the InterregIIIC project PromSTAP. Thanks to all companies involved as well as to students and technical assistants for supporting the study.
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References
Bruckner, S. (2010). Predictive shelf life model: A new approach for the improvement of quality management in meat chains. PhD thesis, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn.
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