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Food safety and Hygiene
International Conference on
Journal of Food Technology and Preservation | ISSN: 2591-796X | Volume 2
Evaluation of microbial load of beef of arsi cattle in Adama town, Oromia, Ethiopia
Arse Gebeyehu Wode
1
,Mohammed Yousuf
2
and
Ameha Sebsibe
3
1
Adami Tulu Agricultural Research Center, Ethiopia
2
Haramaya University, Ethiopia
3
International Livestock Research Institute, Ethiopia
T
he study was conducted in Adama city, on carcass samples
collected from the Ethiopian breed called Arsi breed
cattle with the objective of evaluating beef microbiological
qualities with standard procedures. Carcass samples were
randomly chosen at abattoir using systematic random sampling
techniques. On the night of carcass sampling about 125 cattle
were slaughtered and the carcass samples were chosen on
every 10 counting. Beef samples were aseptically excised and
collected from all parts of the exposed body of carcasses. The
methods described by the Nordic Committee on Food Analysis
(NMKL) were adopted to analyse each of the parameters
considered. Aerobic plate (AP) count, total coliform (TC) count
and faecal coliform FC) counts were significantly different
among different sampling days and batches of samples
(P<0.05). The mean AP, TC, FC, E. coli and staphylococci counts
were 1.62×105, 5.29×101, 9.05×101, 8.97×101 and 5.54×105,
respectively. Salmonella and Shigella bacteria were not
isolated per 25 g samples. In Adama, carcasses are normally
transported to the butchers’ shop either in vans, minibus, taxi,
three-wheel motor cycle and horse-cart. This exposes the meat
to a number of pathogens some of which may be pathogenic.
Speaker Biography
Arse Gebeyehu Wode was born on September 12, 1982 and studied my elementary
and high school at Ethiopian Adventist Academy. After successful completion of high
school he joined Mekelle University in 2002 to study animal science and got his BSc
degree. During his postgraduate study he studied animal production and collected his
MSc degree in 2012 from Haramaya University. He is a senior researcher at Adami Tulu
Agricultural Research Center with over 10 years of experience in meat and dairy animal
research. In his recent research he studied the microbial load of beef of Arsi Cattle (bos
indicus Ethiopian breed).
e:
arse.gebeyehu@yahoo.comArse Gebeyehu Wode et al., Food Safety 2018, Volume 2
DOI: 10.4066/2591-796X-C1-002