Volume: 39 Issue: 2
Year: 2008, Page: 23-25, Doi: https://doi.org/10.51966/jvas.2008.39.23 - 25
Received: May 3, 2008 Accepted: Sept. 12, 2008 Published: Dec. 31, 2008
Bacteriological quality of 60 poultry carcasses selected from a meat processing plant located at Kochi in Kerala was assessed during the present investigation. The sample consisted of 30 carcasses each randomly collected after the removal of head and fore feet (AR HF) and after evisceration (AE) to evaluate the bacterial quality as well as isolation and identification of salmonella . The samples were collected and brought to the laboratory in thermocool containers and processed immediately. The samples had an overall mean Coliform count, Escherichia coli count, Total viable count and Faecal streptococcal count of 3.81 + 0.09 , 0.89 + 0.23, 5.88 + 0.13 and 3.89 + 0.06, 0.89 log10 cfu/ cm2 respectively in samples collected from ARHF and 3.92 + 0.12, 2.15 x + 0.24, 4.44 x + 0.10, 3.91 + 0.07 log10 cfu/cm2 respectively in AE samples. The salmonella was isolated from ten per cent carcasses from ARHF and positive isolates belonged to S. enteritidis.
Keywords: Poultry carcasses, meat processing plant, total viable count, coliform count, Escherichia coli count, faecal streptococcal count, Salmonella.