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Food microbiological examination: Salmonella ——————————————————————————————————— 1. Scope The standard specifies a method for the detection of Salmonella in food. The standard applies a method for the detection for Salmonella in food. 2. Equipment and Material Usual microbiological laboratory equipment and, in particular the following 2.1 Refrigerator: 2-5. 2.2 Incubator: 36±1,42±1 2.3 Homogeneous machine 2.4 Oscillator 2.5 Electric Balance: Sensibility 0.1g 2.6 Asepsis conical flask: Capacities 500ml and 250ml. 2.7 Asepsis pipettes: of capacities 10ml and 1ml, graduated respectively in 0.1ml and 0.01ml divisions or micro-pipette and the suction head. 2.8 Petri dishes: of diameter 90mm. 2.9 Asepsis culture tubes, 3mm*50mm,10mm*75mm 2.10 Asepsis Capillary 2.11 PH-meter or pH color comparison tube or precision pH test strips. 2.12 VITEK Machine. 3. Culture media and reagent 3.1 Buffered peptone water: See appendix A.1 3.2 Tetrathionate Broth: See appendix A.2 3.3 Selenite Cystinol Broth: See appendix A.3 3.4 Bismuth Sulfite Agar: See appendix A.4 3.5 Hekton Enteric Agar: See appendix A.5 3.6 Xylose Lysine Desoxycholate Agar: See appendix A.6 3.7 Salmonella Chromogentic Agar 3.8 Triple sugar/iron agar: See appendix A.7 3.9 Peptone water, Indole reagent: See appendix A.8 3.10 Urea Agar: See appendix A.9 3.11 KCN Agar: See appendix A.10 3.12 Lysine decarboxylation test broth: See appendix A.11 3.13 Bromcresol Fermentation tube: See appendix A.12 3.14 ortho-nitrophenol??-D-galactosidase: See appendix A.13 3.15 Semisolid Medium: See appendix A.14 3.16 Sodium malonate medium: See appendix A.15 3.17 Salmonella O and H phase Antisera |