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Microbiological contamination of food can cause a range of sickness symptoms, the most extreme of which can result in hospitalisation, contamination can also cause food spoilage. Contamination can result from raw ingredients, poor sanitation or hygiene practices, or inappropriate storage conditions.
This quantitative proficiency test will evaluate your testing ability for the enumeration of enterococci in beef.
Beef is consumed globally in significant quantities, as such it is imperative to highlight any poor quality produce being offered to consumers. Poor storage and production processes can also increase risks of contamination that must be mitigated through effective testing capabilities.
Enterococci are lactic acid based bacteria, they are common within livestock but can cause illness and may have antimicrobial resistance. As such it is important to highlight this bacteria within consumer focussed products, as well as safeguarding this ability through quality assurance programmes.
Proficiency tests from Fapas make use of real food matrices together with background flora to fully represent real-world samples. This allows you to challenge your testing ability and provide direct comparisons with your routine analysis from which to inform areas of improvement to safeguard your testing ability.
