About the Authors

Dana K. Dittoe

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, United States of America

Elena G. Olson

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Animal and Dairy Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Lindsey A. Wythe

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Animal and Dairy Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Zachary G. Lawless

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States of America

Dale R. Thompson

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States of America

Lindsey M. Perry

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Safe Foods Corporation, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

Steven C. Ricke

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

sricke@wisc.edu

Affiliation Department of Animal and Dairy Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Competing Interests

Author Dr. Lindsey Mehall was employed by the company Safe Foods Corporation which supplied the product peracetic acid and cetylpyridinium chloride during the onset of the study (North Little Rock, AR, USA). Safe Foods Corporation did provide financial support for this work; however, this did not influence the design, execution, and results of the current work. All other authors declare no competing interests. The commercial affiliation did not alter the adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials