{"id":234048,"date":"2026-02-16T13:17:53","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T12:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alimentibevande.it\/sponsored-contents\/carne-limpatto-della-conservazione-sulla-crescita-microbica\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T13:26:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T12:26:48","slug":"meat-the-impact-of-conservation-on-microbial-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alimentibevande.it\/en\/food-safety\/meat-the-impact-of-conservation-on-microbial-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Meat: the impact of conservation on microbial growth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>EFSA <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/efsa.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.2903\/j.efsa.2026.9825\">has assessed<\/a> how bacteria develop in <strong>beef<\/strong>, <strong>sheep<\/strong>, and <strong>pork <\/strong>during <strong>refrigeration<\/strong>, <strong>storage<\/strong>, and <strong>thawing<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The request came from the <strong>European Commission<\/strong>, which will use the findings to propose possible amendments to EU legislation to address gaps and inconsistencies in some EU rules on the microbiological safety of meat intended for freezing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Specifically, EFSA experts examined <strong>how storage conditions<\/strong> (such as temperature, vacuum packaging and shelf life) <strong>influence microbial growth<\/strong> between slaughter and freezing, based on an equivalence time, i.e. the period during which meat can be stored under alternative conditions without exceeding the microbial levels of the reference scenario considered (meat stored without vacuum packaging at 7\u00b0C for 15 days).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.efsa.europa.eu\/en\/news\/meat-intended-freezing-efsa-assesses-bacterial-growth-meat-it-reaches-consumers\">the main results obtained<\/a><\/strong> on the EFSA website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Food Safety Authority assessed it, at the request of the European Commission, which will thus be able to fill regulatory gaps and inconsistencies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3836,"featured_media":234049,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20576],"tags":[20839,20840,20842,20843,20841],"tipologia":[],"coauthors":[20589],"class_list":["post-234048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food-safety","tag-carne","tag-efsa","tag-meat","tag-microbiological-safety","tag-sicurezza-microbiologica"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Meat: the impact of conservation on microbial growth - Alimentibevande.it<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The European Food Safety Authority assessed it, at the request of the European Commission, which will thus be able to fill regulatory gaps and inconsistencies\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alimentibevande.it\/en\/food-safety\/meat-the-impact-of-conservation-on-microbial-growth\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Meat: the impact of conservation on microbial growth - Alimentibevande.it\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The European Food Safety Authority assessed it, at the request of the European Commission, which will thus be able to fill regulatory gaps and inconsistencies\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.alimentibevande.it\/en\/food-safety\/meat-the-impact-of-conservation-on-microbial-growth\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Alimentibevande.it\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MacchineAlimentariNews\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-02-16T12:17:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-02-16T12:26:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.tecnichenuove.it\/alimentibevande\/2026\/02\/efsa_scritta-1.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"534\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Emanuela Giorgi\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Emanuela Giorgi\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.alimentibevande.it\/en\/food-safety\/meat-the-impact-of-conservation-on-microbial-growth\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.alimentibevande.it\/en\/food-safety\/meat-the-impact-of-conservation-on-microbial-growth\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Emanuela Giorgi\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.alimentibevande.it\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/47f441f1504c75622247562005e6ae00\"},\"headline\":\"Meat: the impact of conservation on microbial growth\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-02-16T12:17:53+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-02-16T12:26:48+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.alimentibevande.it\/en\/food-safety\/meat-the-impact-of-conservation-on-microbial-growth\/\"},\"wordCount\":129,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.alimentibevande.it\/en\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.alimentibevande.it\/en\/food-safety\/meat-the-impact-of-conservation-on-microbial-growth\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.tecnichenuove.it\/alimentibevande\/2026\/02\/efsa_scritta-1.png\",\"keywords\":[\"Carne\",\"Efsa\",\"meat\",\"microbiological safety\",\"sicurezza microbiologica\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Food Safety\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.alimentibevande.it\/en\/food-safety\/meat-the-impact-of-conservation-on-microbial-growth\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.alimentibevande.it\/en\/food-safety\/meat-the-impact-of-conservation-on-microbial-growth\/\",\"name\":\"Meat: the impact of conservation on microbial growth - Alimentibevande.it\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.alimentibevande.it\/en\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.alimentibevande.it\/en\/food-safety\/meat-the-impact-of-conservation-on-microbial-growth\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.alimentibevande.it\/en\/food-safety\/meat-the-impact-of-conservation-on-microbial-growth\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.tecnichenuove.it\/alimentibevande\/2026\/02\/efsa_scritta-1.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-02-16T12:17:53+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-02-16T12:26:48+00:00\",\"description\":\"The European Food Safety Authority assessed it, at the request of the European Commission, which will thus be able to fill regulatory gaps and inconsistencies\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.alimentibevande.it\/en\/food-safety\/meat-the-impact-of-conservation-on-microbial-growth\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.alimentibevande.it\/en\/food-safety\/meat-the-impact-of-conservation-on-microbial-growth\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.alimentibevande.it\/en\/food-safety\/meat-the-impact-of-conservation-on-microbial-growth\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.tecnichenuove.it\/alimentibevande\/2026\/02\/efsa_scritta-1.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.tecnichenuove.it\/alimentibevande\/2026\/02\/efsa_scritta-1.png\",\"width\":800,\"height\":534},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.alimentibevande.it\/en\/food-safety\/meat-the-impact-of-conservation-on-microbial-growth\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.alimentibevande.it\/en\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Meat: the impact of conservation on microbial growth\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.alimentibevande.it\/en\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.alimentibevande.it\/en\/\",\"name\":\"Alimentibevande.it\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.alimentibevande.it\/en\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.alimentibevande.it\/en\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.alimentibevande.it\/en\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Tecniche Nuove\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.alimentibevande.it\/en\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.alimentibevande.it\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.tecnichenuove.it\/alimentibevande\/2026\/03\/tecniche-nuove.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.tecnichenuove.it\/alimentibevande\/2026\/03\/tecniche-nuove.png\",\"width\":620,\"height\":620,\"caption\":\"Tecniche Nuove\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.alimentibevande.it\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MacchineAlimentariNews\",\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/showcase\/macchinealimentari\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.alimentibevande.it\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/47f441f1504c75622247562005e6ae00\",\"name\":\"Emanuela Giorgi\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/adb71a19931bad1fc00d067cbe1f231ba772e7487ea63633b6fb93eec13a1d70?s=96&d=mm&r=g9edd62905a544bcf60c22ba8efa221e5\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/adb71a19931bad1fc00d067cbe1f231ba772e7487ea63633b6fb93eec13a1d70?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/adb71a19931bad1fc00d067cbe1f231ba772e7487ea63633b6fb93eec13a1d70?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Emanuela Giorgi\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.alimentibevande.it\/en\/author\/emanuelagiorgi\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Meat: the impact of conservation on microbial growth - Alimentibevande.it","description":"The European Food Safety Authority assessed it, at the request of the European Commission, which will thus be able to fill regulatory gaps and inconsistencies","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.alimentibevande.it\/en\/food-safety\/meat-the-impact-of-conservation-on-microbial-growth\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Meat: the impact of conservation on microbial growth - Alimentibevande.it","og_description":"The European Food Safety Authority assessed it, at the request of the European Commission, which will thus be able to fill regulatory gaps and inconsistencies","og_url":"https:\/\/www.alimentibevande.it\/en\/food-safety\/meat-the-impact-of-conservation-on-microbial-growth\/","og_site_name":"Alimentibevande.it","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MacchineAlimentariNews","article_published_time":"2026-02-16T12:17:53+00:00","article_modified_time":"2026-02-16T12:26:48+00:00","og_image":[{"width":800,"height":534,"url":"https:\/\/static.tecnichenuove.it\/alimentibevande\/2026\/02\/efsa_scritta-1.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"Emanuela Giorgi","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Emanuela Giorgi","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.alimentibevande.it\/en\/food-safety\/meat-the-impact-of-conservation-on-microbial-growth\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.alimentibevande.it\/en\/food-safety\/meat-the-impact-of-conservation-on-microbial-growth\/"},"author":{"name":"Emanuela Giorgi","@id":"https:\/\/www.alimentibevande.it\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/47f441f1504c75622247562005e6ae00"},"headline":"Meat: the impact of conservation on microbial growth","datePublished":"2026-02-16T12:17:53+00:00","dateModified":"2026-02-16T12:26:48+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.alimentibevande.it\/en\/food-safety\/meat-the-impact-of-conservation-on-microbial-growth\/"},"wordCount":129,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.alimentibevande.it\/en\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.alimentibevande.it\/en\/food-safety\/meat-the-impact-of-conservation-on-microbial-growth\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.tecnichenuove.it\/alimentibevande\/2026\/02\/efsa_scritta-1.png","keywords":["Carne","Efsa","meat","microbiological safety","sicurezza microbiologica"],"articleSection":["Food Safety"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.alimentibevande.it\/en\/food-safety\/meat-the-impact-of-conservation-on-microbial-growth\/","url":"https:\/\/www.alimentibevande.it\/en\/food-safety\/meat-the-impact-of-conservation-on-microbial-growth\/","name":"Meat: the impact of conservation on microbial growth - Alimentibevande.it","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.alimentibevande.it\/en\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.alimentibevande.it\/en\/food-safety\/meat-the-impact-of-conservation-on-microbial-growth\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.alimentibevande.it\/en\/food-safety\/meat-the-impact-of-conservation-on-microbial-growth\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.tecnichenuove.it\/alimentibevande\/2026\/02\/efsa_scritta-1.png","datePublished":"2026-02-16T12:17:53+00:00","dateModified":"2026-02-16T12:26:48+00:00","description":"The European Food Safety Authority assessed it, at the request of the European Commission, which will thus be able to fill regulatory gaps and inconsistencies","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.alimentibevande.it\/en\/food-safety\/meat-the-impact-of-conservation-on-microbial-growth\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.alimentibevande.it\/en\/food-safety\/meat-the-impact-of-conservation-on-microbial-growth\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.alimentibevande.it\/en\/food-safety\/meat-the-impact-of-conservation-on-microbial-growth\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.tecnichenuove.it\/alimentibevande\/2026\/02\/efsa_scritta-1.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.tecnichenuove.it\/alimentibevande\/2026\/02\/efsa_scritta-1.png","width":800,"height":534},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.alimentibevande.it\/en\/food-safety\/meat-the-impact-of-conservation-on-microbial-growth\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.alimentibevande.it\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Meat: the impact of conservation on microbial growth"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.alimentibevande.it\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.alimentibevande.it\/en\/","name":"Alimentibevande.it","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.alimentibevande.it\/en\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.alimentibevande.it\/en\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.alimentibevande.it\/en\/#organization","name":"Tecniche Nuove","url":"https:\/\/www.alimentibevande.it\/en\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.alimentibevande.it\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/static.tecnichenuove.it\/alimentibevande\/2026\/03\/tecniche-nuove.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.tecnichenuove.it\/alimentibevande\/2026\/03\/tecniche-nuove.png","width":620,"height":620,"caption":"Tecniche Nuove"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.alimentibevande.it\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MacchineAlimentariNews","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/showcase\/macchinealimentari"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.alimentibevande.it\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/47f441f1504c75622247562005e6ae00","name":"Emanuela Giorgi","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/adb71a19931bad1fc00d067cbe1f231ba772e7487ea63633b6fb93eec13a1d70?s=96&d=mm&r=g9edd62905a544bcf60c22ba8efa221e5","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/adb71a19931bad1fc00d067cbe1f231ba772e7487ea63633b6fb93eec13a1d70?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/adb71a19931bad1fc00d067cbe1f231ba772e7487ea63633b6fb93eec13a1d70?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Emanuela Giorgi"},"url":"https:\/\/www.alimentibevande.it\/en\/author\/emanuelagiorgi\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alimentibevande.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alimentibevande.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alimentibevande.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alimentibevande.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3836"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alimentibevande.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234048"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.alimentibevande.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234055,"href":"https:\/\/www.alimentibevande.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234048\/revisions\/234055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alimentibevande.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alimentibevande.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alimentibevande.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alimentibevande.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234048"},{"taxonomy":"tipologia","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alimentibevande.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tipologia?post=234048"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alimentibevande.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=234048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}