Guidelines for the microbiological examination of
2018-6-26 · The presence of E. coli in ready-to-eat foods is undesirable because it indicates poor hygienic conditions which have lead to contamination or inadequate heat treatment. Ideally E. coli should not be detected and as such a level of <3 per gram (the limit of the Most Probable Number test) has been given as the satisfactory criteria for this organism.
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