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Abstract
This article analyzes the economies of capacity use regarding hot water decontamination to
reduce postslaughter risk of pathogens in meat, taking interfarm heterogeneities of Salmonella
risk and costs of transportation into account, using Denmark as a case study. If risk
reduction goals are stated at the processing plant level, then the exploitation of the favorable
cost-effectiveness properties of hot water slaughtering requires fairly ambitious risk reduction
goals and thus high use of decontamination capacity. If instead risk reduction goals
are formulated for the sector as a whole, the cost-effectiveness properties can be exploited
even for relatively low-risk reduction goals.