Assessment of Bacterial Evaluation of imported Frozen Meat.

Abstract

One hundred random samples of American, Brazilian, Indian and Sudanese imported frozen meat 25 of each were collected from different shops and super markets at Cairo province to evaluate their bacteriological quality. The obtained results indicated that the mean values of APC of the examined imported frozen meat samples were 7.25x105, 1.53x106, 1.54x106, and 2.35x106 in American, Brazilian, Indian and Sudanese respectively while the mean count of psychotrophic of the examined samples were 1.02x106, 1.42x106 3.57x105 and 1.50x106 respectively , the mean values of staphylococci count in the same samples were 2.41x103, 1.50x104, 1.87x104, and 2.62x104 respectively. For the incidence of Aeromonas species in examined frozen meat , A .hydrophila were present in 20 %, 28 %,40% and 32% of American ,Brazilian, Indian and Sudanese meat respectively while A.Slmonicida were present in 21%,24%,20% and 20% in the same samples respectively on the other hand A. puctata were present in 8%,16%,8% and 12% of the examined samples respectively . A.sorbia also present in 8%,20%,4% and 8% of the same samples respectively finaly A. cavia were present in 8%,16%,4% and 4% of the examined samples respectively