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Prevalence of Sulfite-reducing clostridia in some salted marketed fish products

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Last updated: 24 Dec 2024

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Meat hygiene

Abstract

Salted fish products are one of desirable commercial seafood in Egypt, especially in the spring season in the period of spring Eid as an Egyptian tradition. Besides that, however, some sulfite-reducing anaerobic bacteria do not potentiate a public health hazard, it can cause a marked spoilage of the salted fish proteins. Therefore, ninety random samples of salted Mugil cephalus (feseikh) and sardine, forty-five of each, collected from various retailers in Benha city to investigate the prevalence of sulfite-reducing clostridia focusing on Clostridium perfringens as a toxigenic food poisoning anaerobe. Out of the examined samples, 26.7% were contaminated with sulfite-reducing anaerobes; where, C. perfringens was the most detected species with incidence of 22.2% and 15.6% for feseikh and sardine samples with mean count (CFU/g) of 3.5x102 and 1.1x102, respectively; revealing feseikh samples of higher contamination level than sardine samples; whereas, Clostridium botulinum was not detected in any of the examined samples. Referring to the Egyptian standards, 81.1% of examined samples were fit for human consumption regarding with sulfite-reducing anaerobic count. So, high hygienic standards should be followed during collection of raw fishes all over the salting and preservation cycle.

DOI

10.21608/bvmj.2024.282586.1805

Keywords

anaerobes, Food poisoning, salted fish

Authors

First Name

Samia

Last Name

Saliman

MiddleName

hamed

Affiliation

1 Department of Food Hygiene and Control, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Benha University 2 Directorate of Veterinary Medicine, Qalubiya Governorate, Egypt

Email

samia.hamed@yahoo.com

City

Benha

Orcid

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First Name

Abo Bakr

Last Name

Edris

MiddleName

Mostafa

Affiliation

Department of Food Hygiene and Control, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Benha University

Email

abobakr.edris@yahoo.com

City

Tanta

Orcid

-

First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Nabil

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Food Hygiene Department, Animal Health Research Institute, ARC, Egypt.

Email

mhmdvet2010@gmail.com

City

Benha

Orcid

0000-0002-6758-0199

Volume

46

Article Issue

2

Related Issue

48993

Issue Date

2024-07-01

Receive Date

2024-04-12

Publish Date

2024-07-01

Page Start

119

Page End

122

Print ISSN

1110-6581

Online ISSN

2974-4806

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https://bvmj.journals.ekb.eg/article_366529.html

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812

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Publication Title

Benha Veterinary Medical Journal

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https://bvmj.journals.ekb.eg/

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Prevalence of Sulfite-reducing clostridia in some salted marketed fish products

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24 Dec 2024