SANIFICATION PROTOCOLS EVALUATION IN BUTCHER SHOPS AND FISH MARKETS WITH LABORATORY FOR COOKED AND/OR READY TO COOK PRODUCTION – PRELIMINARY RESULTS


https://doi.org/10.4081/ijfs.2010.1032
AIVI - June 2010 - Issue 8
Submitted: 7 February 2013
Accepted: 7 February 2013
Published: 13 June 2010
Hygiene control, sanitised surfaces, swab method, effectiveness, cleaning and disinfection protocols.
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Authors

  • G. Blasi
    lucia.zoppi@pagepress.org
    Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell’Umbria e delle Marche - Fermo, Italy.
  • M. Lanciotti Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell’Umbria e delle Marche - Fermo, Italy.
  • B. Palombo Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell’Umbria e delle Marche - Fermo, Italy.
  • G. Ciccaleni ASUR Marche ZT n. 11 Fermo, Italy.
  • A.M. Semeraro ASUR Marche ZT n. 12 San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy.
  • P Carosi ASUR Marche ZT n. 13 Ascoli Piceno, Italy.
  • A. Duranti Osservatorio Epidemiologico Veterinario - Ancona, Italy.
The application of sanification protocols is a pre-requisite for safety and hygienic quality assurance of foodstuff. At the moment food business operators establish own hygienic standards based on literature or internal standards. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of cleaning and disinfection protocols in 57 butcher shops and 27 fish markets in Fermo and Ascoli Piceno. During the routine official inspections, from March and December 2008, 272 environmental samples were collected by swab method on sanitized surfaces (table, cutting board and working plan ...) and equipment (balances, mincers, bacons, slicers ...) and examined for total aerobic mesophilic count (CMT) and Enterobacteriaceae. The results obtained were ranked into three microbiological classes (CMT Log CFU/cm2 class A:

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Blasi G, Lanciotti M, Palombo B, Ciccaleni G, Semeraro A, Carosi P, Duranti A. SANIFICATION PROTOCOLS EVALUATION IN BUTCHER SHOPS AND FISH MARKETS WITH LABORATORY FOR COOKED AND/OR READY TO COOK PRODUCTION – PRELIMINARY RESULTS. Ital J Food Safety [Internet]. 2010 Jun. 13 [cited 2024 Apr. 18];1(8):25-9. Available from: https://www.pagepressjournals.org/ijfs/article/view/ijfs.2010.8.25

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