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Table 4 Occurrence of pathogenic microorganism at 4 processing phases of the processing phase

From: Microbial quality of poultry meat in an ISO 22000:2005 certified poultry processing plant of Kathmandu valley

Processing stage

E. coli

S. aureus

Salmonella spp.

Clostridium perfringens

Listeria spp.

Evisceration

37.4%

18.57%

–

–

–

Final washing

22.8%

19.4%

–

–

–

Frozen

11.4%

17.1%

–

–

–

Market

10.2%

17.1%

–

–

–