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Microbial contaminants of commercially bottled non-alcoholic drinks produced in Nigeria
✍ Scribed by S.U. Oranusi; L.I. Ezeogu; B.N. Okolo
- Book ID
- 104640760
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1994
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 213 KB
- Volume
- 10
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1573-0972
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✦ Synopsis
When microbiological
analyses were conducted on 90 samples of soft drinks representing 30 different products commercially available in Nigeria, contaminants were detected in 50% of them. The isolates were mainly saprophytic and non-pathogenic: Bacillus spp. (35%), Lactobacillus spp. (26%), Pediococcus spp. (6%), Staphylococcus epidennidis (6%) and Micrococcus spp. (3%) accounted for the bacterial isolates while Aspergillus niger (6%) and Saccharomyces spp. (16%) accounted for the fungal isolates.