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Evaluation of microbial load in cut fruits sold by vendors in Kota Bharu

Fresh cut products such as fruits are highly demand by consumer nowadays. Fresh cut fruits promote good health but harbor a wide range of microbial contaminants. Slicing of the fruits may cause tissue disruption, which lead to high respiration rate. Higher respiration rates in fruits may cause me...

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Main Author:	Sabri, Nurul Aqillah Ahmad
Format:	Monograph
Language:	English
Published:	Universiti Sains Malaysia 2016
Subjects:	R735-854 Medical education. Medical schools. Research R856-857 Biomedical engineering. Electronics. Instrumentation
Online Access:	http://eprints.usm.my/61337/1/NURUL%20AQILAH%20BINTI%20AHMAD%20SABRI%20-%20e.pdf http://eprints.usm.my/61337/
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spelling	my.usm.eprints.61337 http://eprints.usm.my/61337/ Evaluation of microbial load in cut fruits sold by vendors in Kota Bharu Sabri, Nurul Aqillah Ahmad R735-854 Medical education. Medical schools. Research R856-857 Biomedical engineering. Electronics. Instrumentation Fresh cut products such as fruits are highly demand by consumer nowadays. Fresh cut fruits promote good health but harbor a wide range of microbial contaminants. Slicing of the fruits may cause tissue disruption, which lead to high respiration rate. Higher respiration rates in fruits may cause metabolism to active, then cause fruits to deteriorate. Outbreaks have been linked with cut watermelon, papaya, pineapple, honeydew and guava. Factor influencing microbial load in cut fruits such as unclean seller and equipment, pH of fruits, sugar content, surface area and plating method. To evaluate the microbial load of cut fruits in Kota Bharu, 10 samples of different fruits were purchased from two vendors. Pour plate and spread plate method have been used to culture microbial load. For pour plate method, microbial load ranged from 5.08 x 102 to 9.00 x IO4 cfu/ml in cut fruit sold by cafeteria vendor and from 3.36 x 102 to 2.80 x 103 cfu /ml in cut fruits sold by roadside vendor. As for spread plate method, microbial load varied from 1.27 x 104 to 3.24 x 106 cfu /ml in cut fruit sold by cafeteria vendor and 7.60 x 103 - 8.10 x 106 cfu /ml in cut fruit sold by roadside vendor. Universiti Sains Malaysia 2016 Monograph NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.usm.my/61337/1/NURUL%20AQILAH%20BINTI%20AHMAD%20SABRI%20-%20e.pdf Sabri, Nurul Aqillah Ahmad (2016) Evaluation of microbial load in cut fruits sold by vendors in Kota Bharu. Project Report. Universiti Sains Malaysia. (Submitted)
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spellingShingle	R735-854 Medical education. Medical schools. Research R856-857 Biomedical engineering. Electronics. Instrumentation Sabri, Nurul Aqillah Ahmad Evaluation of microbial load in cut fruits sold by vendors in Kota Bharu
description	Fresh cut products such as fruits are highly demand by consumer nowadays. Fresh cut fruits promote good health but harbor a wide range of microbial contaminants. Slicing of the fruits may cause tissue disruption, which lead to high respiration rate. Higher respiration rates in fruits may cause metabolism to active, then cause fruits to deteriorate. Outbreaks have been linked with cut watermelon, papaya, pineapple, honeydew and guava. Factor influencing microbial load in cut fruits such as unclean seller and equipment, pH of fruits, sugar content, surface area and plating method. To evaluate the microbial load of cut fruits in Kota Bharu, 10 samples of different fruits were purchased from two vendors. Pour plate and spread plate method have been used to culture microbial load. For pour plate method, microbial load ranged from 5.08 x 102 to 9.00 x IO4 cfu/ml in cut fruit sold by cafeteria vendor and from 3.36 x 102 to 2.80 x 103 cfu /ml in cut fruits sold by roadside vendor. As for spread plate method, microbial load varied from 1.27 x 104 to 3.24 x 106 cfu /ml in cut fruit sold by cafeteria vendor and 7.60 x 103 - 8.10 x 106 cfu /ml in cut fruit sold by roadside vendor.
format	Monograph
author	Sabri, Nurul Aqillah Ahmad
author_facet	Sabri, Nurul Aqillah Ahmad
author_sort	Sabri, Nurul Aqillah Ahmad
title	Evaluation of microbial load in cut fruits sold by vendors in Kota Bharu
title_short	Evaluation of microbial load in cut fruits sold by vendors in Kota Bharu
title_full	Evaluation of microbial load in cut fruits sold by vendors in Kota Bharu
title_fullStr	Evaluation of microbial load in cut fruits sold by vendors in Kota Bharu
title_full_unstemmed	Evaluation of microbial load in cut fruits sold by vendors in Kota Bharu
title_sort	evaluation of microbial load in cut fruits sold by vendors in kota bharu
publisher	Universiti Sains Malaysia
publishDate	2016
url	http://eprints.usm.my/61337/1/NURUL%20AQILAH%20BINTI%20AHMAD%20SABRI%20-%20e.pdf http://eprints.usm.my/61337/
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Evaluation of microbial load in cut fruits sold by vendors in Kota Bharu

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