Bacteriological evaluation of half cooked chicken meat products

Document Type : Original Article

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Department of Food Control, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Benha University

Abstract

A total of 60 random samples of half cooked chicken meat products (chicken nuggets, chicken hot wings
and frozen chicken shawerma) were collected from different supermarkets at El- Dakahlyia, El-Kalyobia
and El-Gharbia governorates for bacteriological examination. The obtained results indicated that there
is a high significance difference (P<0.01) between examined samples of chicken meat products for APC,
total staphylococci count and total enterococci count as a result of product type. E.coli was isolated
from 25%, 5% and 10% of examined samples of chicken nuggets, chicken hot wings and frozen chicken
shawerma, respectively

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