Direct methods usually require an incubation time for colony growth to be visible. Why is this not always feasible for analysis of foods? What are some of the disadvantages of direct cell count methods? What are some other methods used in industry?
The food might get rotten during the incubation time period and the bacterial growth density might reduce and this can give false positive results.
Disadvantages are: 1. Both living and dead cells are counted.
2. Only dense suspension can be counted.
3. If cells are not stained phase contrast microscope needs to be used.
4. Not sensitive if cell number is lesser than 1 million.
5. Difficult to see small cells and sometimes wrongly counted.
Spectroscopy methods, solid phase extraction methods, phosphate test, dairy fat test, gas chromatography, ion pair chromatography, enzyme based assay, whole animal or cell studies etc are used in industries for analysis of food.
Direct methods usually require an incubation time for colony growth to be visible. Why is this...
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Directions: There are two parts for this lab. The first part is
working with the Microscope slides. The second part is working with
media.
Task 1 – Bacteriology Survey Microscope Slides
Directions: There are eight different bacterium you need to
research.
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• Streptococcus
• Treponema
• Neisseria gonorrhoeae
• Klebisella pneumonia
• Unstained Bacillus
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