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Bacteriological Quality Of Frozen Chicken
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Twenty samples of frozen chicken from five different sellers were analyzed to determine their bacteriological load; the samples were collected from Gwagwalada market. All the frozen chicken samples from the five sellers examined were contaminated with some bacterial species namely, Bacillus cereus, Escherichia coli, Staphyloccus aureus, Staphylococcus epidermidis, Proteus vulgaris, Klebsiella pneumonia, Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The total bacteria counts for all the chicken examined from the different sellers was in the range of 0.7 × 102
cfu/ml to 8.5 × 102 cfu/ml and the coliform counts obtained for all the chicken samples ranged from 0.1 × 102 cfu/ml to 3.2 × 102 cfu/ml. These finding suggest that most of the frozen chicken parts stored in the open market may constitute sources of bacterial food poisoning consequently public health hazard.
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CHAPTER ONE - [ Total Page(s): 2 ]Contamination of the skin and lining of the body
cavity occurs during washing, plucking and evisceration. Bacterial
numbers vary considerably on the surface of chickens. This variation
however is greater between birds than is between different areas of the
same birds. The type of organisms isolated depends upon where the
samples were taken and upon the stage of processing (Frazier and
Westhoff, 1988). Fresh poultry products like meat are known to undergo
deterioration due to microb ... Continue reading---
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CHAPTER ONE - [ Total Page(s): 2 ]Contamination of the skin and lining of the body
cavity occurs during washing, plucking and evisceration. Bacterial
numbers vary considerably on the surface of chickens. This variation
however is greater between birds than is between different areas of the
same birds. The type of organisms isolated depends upon where the
samples were taken and upon the stage of processing (Frazier and
Westhoff, 1988). Fresh poultry products like meat are known to undergo
deterioration due to microb ... Continue reading---
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