Evaluation of sampling methods for the detection of pathogenic bacteria on pre-harvest leafy greens.

This study indicates that while the mean detection probabilities for the three sampling methods are similar, the random or stratified random sampling are less variable, particularly when the number of contamination sites or number of samples analyzed are small. PMID: 30297044 [PubMed - in process]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30297044?dopt=Abstract

Source: Food Microbiology - October 10, 2018 Category: Food Science Authors: Xu A, Buchanan RL Tags: Food Microbiol Source Type: research