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Zajác, Peter https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4425-4374
Čapla, Jozef https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9475-6359
Ailer, Lucia https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2321-6627
Tulipánová, Alexandra https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0046-2120
Imreová, Zuzana https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5411-5319
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
Agentúra na Podporu Výskumu a Vývoja (APVV-23-0036)
Agentúra na Podporu Výskumu a Vývoja (APVV-23-0036)
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Article History
Received: 2 February 2026
Accepted: 24 April 2026
First Online: 27 April 2026
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: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The article does not contain studies requiring approval from the employer’s ethics committee. This study did not involve human participants, patients, or sensory evaluation; therefore, eligibility criteria, contextual information, and demographic data are not applicable. Any persons incidentally visible in Figs. 1 and 3 are employees or operators of the respective food production facilities and are not study participants. Permission was obtained from all sheep farm owners and other food business operators involved in the study for on-site cheese production, sample collection, documentation of production environments, and inclusion of the farms in the manuscript. Written informed consent for the use and publication of the images and collected data in an online open-access journal was obtained from all persons depicted and from the respective food business operators. All facilities and persons depicted in the images are anonymized, and the images do not contain identifiable personal information.
