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Ganyu Gu1, Qiao Ding2, Marina Redding1

  • 1Environmental Microbial and Food Safety Laboratory, USDA ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705, United States of America.

International Journal of Food Microbiology
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Keywords:
16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencingAerobic bacteriaFood safetyFresh produceMicrobiomePre-processing delayProduce qualityTotal coliform

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