Food & Water Bacteriology Flashcards
Perishable foods which can support the growth of harmful bacteria
high risk foods
Which is not part of the high risk food group?
(1) All cooked meat and poultry.
(2) gravy, stock, and roll/sandwich fillings
(3) eggs and egg products
(4) vegetable salad [no dressing]
(4)
Which is not part of the high risk food group?
(A)Milk, cream, artificial cream, custards and dairy
products
(B)Canola oil
(C)shell fish and other sea food
(D)cooked rice
(B)
Minimum weight range for food sample analysis
25-30 g
Why must delay be kept to a minimum (in food sample analysis)?
target organism may decline in number & spoilage organisms may increase in number
What are the four factors to consider in food sample collection?
(1) Time
(2) Temperature
(3) Container
(4) Manner of collection:
How much time is the limit between collection and reception into the laboratory?
2 hours
Identify the process used for analysis:
- gives evaluation of total population of aerobic microbes present (# of colonies that develop after incubation)
- Swabs of product are applied in sterile covered plates to culture media that non-selectively support growth.
Aerobic Plate Count
Which is not a disadvantage of the Aerobic Plate Count method?
a. only counts plates with 25-250 colonies
b. may not be done on fermented foods
c. Small colonies may be difficult to see
d. Sometimes hard to distinguish food particles from bacteria
A
Aerobic Plate Count is used for everything except:
a. Check the microbiological quality of final products only
b. Determine whether a food has been subjected to
temperature abuse during production, transport and
storage
c. Estimate the potential storage life of product
d. Check level of contamination in processing envt
A
raw materials also
Identify the food analysis method:
* Involves the use of agar poured at 45˚C, which may kill
some pychrotrophs or psychrophiles, or damage cells and reduce count
* the technique gives both surface and subsurface colonies
Pour Plate Method
Identify the method: Only count plates with 25-250 colonies
Counting Plates
In Membrane Filtration Method, which does not happen?
A. Involves passing a known volume of liquid through a
cadmium acetate with a pore size of 0.45 um
B. Bacteria, yeasts and molds are removed from the liquid and precipitated on the membrane surface
C. When the membrane is transferred to a pad soaked in
nutrient medium or an agar plate and incubated, nutrients diffuse through the membrane so that organisms can grow on the membrane surface giving visible colonies that can be counted
D. none of the above
A
cellulose acetate dapat
MBF as a technique for assessing microbial numbers is
limited to __
clear liquids that do not contain debris or other
materials that will block the filter
False about Membrane Filtration Method
A. Has an advantage of detecting high numbers of organisms in small volumes of liquids
B. Particularly useful for testing treated water supplies for the presence of coliforms
C. both are false
A
Dapat:
Has an advantage of detecting low numbers of organisms
in large volumes of liquids