Effect of Sanitary Status of Meat Processing Plants on Some Meat Products

A total of (160) fresh luncheon and Kofta samples were collected from two different meat processing plants from Alexandria province. Twenty samples at two different processing stages, homogenate and final stage from each product. These samples were examined bacteriologically for Total aerobic and Psychrotrophic count, isolation and identification of Staphylococcus aureus, Total Enterobacteriaceae, Total Coliform, Total Mould and Yeast count. The bacterial investigation carried out to luncheon homogenate at plant I and plant II revealed that there was a clear significance between the plants in the total Psychrotrophic count, total Staphylococcus aureus count, total coliform count, total mould and yeast count. While there was no significance between the plants in the total aerobic count and total enterobacteriaceae count. At the final luncheon product stage, there was significance between all previous types of counts except in total Staphylococcal count. While in case of Kofta homogenate there was a significant variation between the plants in case of all mentioned counts except in TAC and total Enterobacteriaceae where there was no significance. For the final product of Kofta there was no significance between the plant I and plant II in all counts except in the TAC and total mould and yeast count, where there was a significant variation. This mainly due to the final heat treatment. Coagulase positive Staph.aureus was 19 samples (24.38 %) out of 80 examined samples. The public health significance of these types of bacteria must be regarded and studied.