A4¥Ljnci'ster Farming, Saturday, March 1i; 2000
New Way To Protect Meat
WASHINGTON, D.C.-A
new way to protect consumers
from harmful bacteria that may
be found in meat has been dis
covered by scientists from Cali
fornia State Polytechnic
University, Pomona. The results
of their research were presented
at a USDA-sponsored confer
ence on foodborne bacteria that
was held recently.
The breakthrough involves
applying a small amount of lac
toferrin from cow’s milk to the
surface of meat during process
ing. Lactoferrin is a naturally
occurring protein in mammalian
milk that is credited with pro
tecting infants from harmful
bacteria while their immune sys
tems are developing. By discov
ering how to activate the
lactoferrin molecule, scientists
were able to mimic its function
on meat.
Laboratory tests showed the
activated form of lactoferrin to
be effective against more than
30 different kinds of harmful
bacteria, including F. coli
0157:H7, Salmonella and Cam
pylobacter. Lactoferrin does not
change the taste, flavor, color, or
appearance of meat.
“We have borrowed a page
from mother nature,” said A.S.
“Narain” Naidu, Ph.D., a medi
cal microbiologist who heads the
Center for Antimicrobial Re
search at Cal Poly Pomona.
“We have taken a natural com
pound with antimicrobial prop
erties and discovered a way to
make it work on meat surfaces
to provide a protective barrier
against harmful bacteria.”
The University’s research in
volved applying an activated
form of lactoferrin to meat
tissue surfaces that had been
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“The research objective was
to use lactoferrin to prevent bac
teria from attaching and multi
plying on meat surfaces using
the same natural compound that
has functioned this way in mam
mals for thousands of years,”
said Dr. Naidu, who has studied
lactoferrin and other natural an
timicrobial agents for nearly 20
years.
According to Dr. Naidu, the
amount of activated lactoferrin
required to protect a serving of
meat is thousands of times less
than the amount of lactoferrin
found in a single glass of milk.
Lactoferrin currently is pro
duced from whey, a by-product
in the manufacture of cheese
from cow’s milk.
Dr. Naidu said activated lac
toferrin can be applied easily to
meat products at the processing
plant as an added step to the
meat industry’s existing multi
ple-hurdle bacterial control pro
cess. Because lactoferrin
remains on the meat surface, he
said the compound may provide
lasting protection from bacterial
exposure after processing.
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