[Enterococcal survival in forcemeat preserved in polymer films and in cutlets made from it]

The available data suggest that at 2 degrees and 5 degrees with a 12-day long storage in unpacked and in polymeric film packed forcemeat there occurs no propagation of the enterococci. At 22-24 degrees the multiplication of Str. faecalis var. liquefaciens proceeded similarly both in packed and unpacked forcemeat. When the temperature in the central part of the cutlets prepared from the enterococci-contaminated forcemeat reaches 7-80 degrees the bulk of the Str. faecalis var liquefaciens cells perishes, but even at 80 degrees there survive individual heat-resistant cells.