An individual-carcass model for quantifying bacterial cross-contamination in an industrial three-stage poultry scalding tank

The World Health Organization has declared the scalding, defeathering, evisceration, and chilling processing stages in industrial poultry slaughterhouses as sites of cross-contamination. In response, we develop a novel ordinary differential equation model describing the transfer and thermal inactivation of pathogens between carcasses in an industrial three-stage scalding tank. The model provides a link between the distribution of bacteria on...