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A minimal apparatus method for counting bacteria: comparison with reference method in surveying beef carcasses at three commercial abattoirs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 October 2009

W. R. Hudson ,
T. A. Roberts  and
O. P. Whelehan
W. R. Hudson
Affiliation:
Meat Research Institute, Langford, Bristol, BS18 7DY
T. A. Roberts
Affiliation:
Meat Research Institute, Langford, Bristol, BS18 7DY
O. P. Whelehan
Affiliation:
Meat Research Institute, Langford, Bristol, BS18 7DY
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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.

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Research Article
Information
Journal of Hygiene , Volume 91 , Issue 3 , December 1983 , pp. 459 - 466
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1983

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