Journal
JOURNAL OF FOOD PROTECTION
Volume 84, Issue 2, Pages 275-280Publisher
INT ASSOC FOOD PROTECTION
DOI: 10.4315/JFP-20-330
Keywords
Ceca; Food safety; Layer; Postbiotic; Poultry; Salmonella
Funding
- Diamond V provided the feed additive (SCFP)
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The study showed that adding SCFP to the diet can significantly reduce the amount of Salmonella Enteritidis in the ceca of young layer pullets, which could improve the food safety level of commercial laying hens.
Salmonella Enteritidis is responsible for a significant proportion of foodborne salmonellosis in the United States and continues to be attributable to table eggs despite increased federal oversight. Technologies, including feed additives, continue to be evaluated for preharvest application and their potential food safety benefits. Diamond V Original XPC, a Saccharomyces cerevisiae fermentation-based postbiotic (SCFP), was evaluated for its effectiveness in reducing Salmonella Enteritidis (SE) colonization in young layer pullets. A total of 40 day-old Hy-Line W-36 layer pullets were equally divided and randomly assigned to one of two dietary treatments, with SCFP or without SCFP (PCON), and orally gavaged on day 28 with SE at 10(6) CFU/mL. Another 20 day-old pullets were fed the same control feed without SCFP and blank inoculated on day 28 with 1 mL of sterile phosphate-buffered saline to serve as a negative control. Qualitative and quantitative analyses of cecal contents for Salmonella were performed for all birds on day 32. The prevalence of SE in the ceca of all directly challenged birds was 100%; however, the SE concentration in birds fed SCFP diet (3.35 log CFU/g) was significantly lower (P < 0.0001) than that of the PCON birds not fed SCFP (4.49 log CFU/g). The proportion of birds with enumerable SE concentrations was lower in SCFP-fed pullets (57.9%) than in the PCON pullets (95.0%). These data suggest that inclusion of SCFP in the diet may aid in the reduction of SE within the coca of commercial laying hens and could serve as an additional preharvest food safety hurdle.
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