Eviscerated chicken carcasses were treated with chlortetracycline (CTC) or irradiated with 0.3 or 0.6 Mrad, and then stored at 0.°. Changes in quality during storage up to 26 days were studied, and microbial counts made on the carcasses. 0.6 Mrad caused a fairly rapid decline in quality, but with 0.3 Mrad or CTC deterioration of quality was only noticed when the carcasses had been stored at 0° for 19 days or longer. This loss of quality was not due to the growth of micro‐organisms.
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