ISO 4832:2006

ISO 4832:2006

February 2006
International standard Current

Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs - Horizontal method for the enumeration of coliforms - Colony-count technique

ISO 4832:2006 gives general guidelines for the enumeration of coliforms. It is applicable to products intended for human consumption and for the feeding of animals, and environmental samples in the area of food production and food handling, by means of the technique of counting colonies after incubation on a solid medium at 30 °C or at 37 °C. This technique is recommended when the number of colonies sought is expected to be more than 100 per millilitre or per gram of the test sample.

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Publication date

February 2006

Number of pages

6 p.

Reference

ISO 4832:2006

ICS Codes

07.100.30   Food microbiology

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1 - 03/03/2006
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Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs - Horizontal method for the enumeration of coliforms - Colony-count technique

ISO 4832:2006 gives general guidelines for the enumeration of coliforms. It is applicable to products intended for human consumption and for the feeding of animals, and environmental samples in the area of food production and food handling, by means of the technique of counting colonies after incubation on a solid medium at 30 °C or at 37 °C.

This technique is recommended when the number of colonies sought is expected to be more than 100 per millilitre or per gram of the test sample.

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