A minimal apparatus method for counting bacteria: comparison with reference method in surveying beef carcasses at three commercial abattoirs
- 1 August 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Epidemiology and Infection
- Vol. 91 (3) , 459-466
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022172400060502
Abstract
SUMMARY: In two surveys of three commercial abattoirs a minimal apparatus method for making bacterial counts, the ‘loop-tile’ method, detected the same trends in bacterial numbers on beef carcasses as the ISO reference method applied to the same samples. Both methods showed the carcasses from one abattoir, that with an export licence, to carry consistently higher numbers of bacteria, and one of the four sites sampled on each carcass to be consistently dirtier than the other three.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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