Microbiological Evaluation of Surimi Product

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Samina Perveen, Kanwal Nazim, Muhammad Uzair Khan, Sikander Khan Sherwani and Haroon Ahmad (Marine Fishery Department, Karachi, Pakistan, Marine Reference Collection and Resource Centre, University of Karachi, Pakistan, Department of Microbiology, Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science & Technology Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Karachi, Pakistan, Institute of Molecular Biosciences-University of Queensland, Australia)

The current study was aimed to evaluate the coliforms, fecal coliforms, Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus in surimi prodcut. The study was conducted in two consecutive years (2007 and 2008). The results showed that Coliform was highest in counts followed by S. aureus, fecal coliforms and E. coli.