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What does APC stand for?

Aerobic Plate Count (microbiology)


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One hundred twenty samples of each vegetable were randomly harvested and processed for microbiological analysis following standard procedures recommended by the FDA for analyzing aerobic plate counts, coliforms, E.
1% weight by volume (w/v) peptone solution as follows: * Aerobic plate counts (APCs) were carried out on plate count agar and incubated at 30[degrees]C for 72 hours.
1 mL aliquots were spread plated onto nonselective aerobic plate count agar (APC, Difco) in petri plates and incubated at 25[degrees]C for 48-72 h.
They also wanted to evaluate the effects of ozone treatments on aerobic plate counts and lipid oxidation, assessed as thiobarbituric acid reactive substances (TBARs) and headspace propanal, through 10 days of refrigerated storage at 2 C.
Bacteriological Analysis Using the spread-plate technique and 100 [micro]L from the serial dilution, the authors prepared duplicate plates for the determination of aerobic plate counts (APC), Enterobactericiceae, fecal coliforms, total colilorms, Staphylococcus, and Streptococcus.
Specifically, Fortified Mineral Neutralizer, lot 307, packaged in gallon and 20-ounce containers, had an aerobic plate count that was too high, "yet the gallons were released for distribution with no investigation to determine where the contamination occurred.
Within 48 hours of production, the microbial background of the chicken salad was assessed by an aerobic plate count (Maturin & Peeler, 2001) on tryptic soy agar (TSA) (Beckton, Dickinson and Co.
Cerenzio led off the 483 by citing a deionized water system with not producing water meeting its "established action levels for total aerobic plate counts .

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