Effect of Four Presumptive Coliform Test Media, Incubation Time and Product Inoculum Size on Recovery of Coliforms from Dairy Products
- 1 May 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier in Journal of Food Protection
- Vol. 48 (5) , 388-392
- https://doi.org/10.4315/0362-028x-48.5.388
Abstract
The need to consider the interrelationship of relevant procedural parameters in media comparison studies has been shown. In this study, the influence of media-type on recovery of coliforms from dairy products was found to be of less importance than the effects of incubation time and inoculum size. Statistically significant media-type effects were found, however, and these contrasted with the observations of other workers in that bile-salt-based media performed better than chemically-defined media. These findings indicate that media studies too specifically designed may yield conclusions with limited range of application.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
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