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Table 4 The mean comparison of microbial reduction from milk container surfaces between the control treatment and the treatments that used cold water, warm water, hot water and use of a disinfectant

From: Effectiveness of the sanitation regimes used by dairy actors to control microbial contamination of plastic jerry cans’ surfaces

Treatments of sanitation regimes

TVC

TCC

LAB

The control treatment

5.06a

3.83a

3.60a

The treatments having Hot water

2.30b

1.18c

1.87b

The treatments having Cold water

2.14b

1.74b

1.79b

The treatments having Warm water

2.09b

1.49bc

1.22c

The treatments having Disinfectant

2.08b

1.30bc

3.24a

  1. Key: Means with the same letter (along the column) is not significantly different at P < 0.05 using LSD least significant difference