Microbiological evaluation of imported frozen meat

One hundred Lmp or-t.e d frozen mea L samples were collected fromfrozen meat cargo on board at day of consignment arrivalport for microbiological examination t.o judge theof sa ni ta t.Lo n a nd hygienic measures adopted atTIle obtained results w h t.c h concluded in this study revealedconsignmen ts from which samples were taken been producedder sa n i ta tion and hygienegram of mea t expressed as minimum, maximum and mean valueThe psychrotrophic counts were 3 X 102 , 2 X 10’1 and 105 ””Only 47% of samples were positive for enterococci at rate of, 103 and 103 f o r- strep. faecalis, s t r-e p. intermediate andexpressed as mean value respect.i v e Iy Staphylococcus a ureus could be detected in 30% of examinedand the count varies from 10 to 2 X 103 wi t h a mean102Finally 50% of examined samples were posi ti ve to mould andmaximum and mean value counts of (10, 5 X 103X 1(2), a n d (102 ~3 X 103 a n d Ll X 102) respectively