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KMID : 0881720170320050348
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Journal of Food Hygiene and Safety
2017 Volume.32 No. 5 p.348 ~ p.354
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Establishment of Microbial Criteria by Investigation of Microbial Contamination in Ready-to-Eat Foods
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Song Bo-Ra
Kim Soon-Han
Kim Jin-Kwang
Han Jeong-A
Kwak Hyo-Sun
Chung Gyung-Tae
Heo Eun-Jeong
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Abstract
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Internationally different food safety regulation and standards could cause troubles in trade unless those are built on scientific knowledge. In this research, we monitored the microbial population and analyzed the results to determine the level of microbial contamination in foodstuffs using relatively new statistical analysis (microbiological sampling plan, International Commission on Microbiological Specification for Foods). The goal of this research falls on establishing entirely new standards for various food categories addressed in the Korean “Food Code”. Targets for monitoring were indicator organisms (i.e. total aerobic count, coliform and Escherichia coli) and foodborne pathogens (i.e. Bacillus cereus, Staphylococcus aureus and Clostridium perfringens) in ready-to-eat (RTE) products. As the result of the monitoring, total aerobic count, coliform, E. coli, and B. cereus in RTE products were found at the mean values of 2.10 log CFU/g, ?0.60 log CFU/g, ?1.33 log CFU/g and ?1.23 log CFU/g, respectively. S. aureus was detected with the level of ?1.35 log CFU/g only in fresh-cut food, while C. perfringens was ?1.37 log CFU/g only in ready-to-cook food. Other samples did not have any food borne pathogens. Total aerobic count, B. cereus, S. aureus and C. perfringens satisfied the Food Code (the MFDS). On the basis of the analysis, we proposed a draft of microbial criteria for RTE products.
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KEYWORD
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RTE Foods , Sampling Plan , Microbial Criteria
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