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THE USE OF CALCIUM ALGINATE WOOL FOR SWABBING DAIRY EQUIPMENT
Author(s) -
TREDINNICK J. E.,
TUCKER J.
Publication year - 1951
Publication title -
proceedings of the society for applied bacteriology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.889
H-Index - 156
eISSN - 1365-2672
pISSN - 0370-1778
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2672.1951.tb01996.x
Subject(s) - wool , sodium alginate , calcium alginate , calcium , plating (geology) , alginic acid , food science , sodium , chemistry , veterinary medicine , biology , materials science , medicine , composite material , biochemistry , paleontology , organic chemistry
Summary: Seventy‐three comparative tests of dairy plant were made using swabs of ribbon gauze and calcium alginate wool, the latter being dissolved before plating in dilute sodium hexametaphosphate solution. The colony counts obtained with alginate swabs were in the great majority of cases much higher than those with gauze. When both types of swab were inoculated with known numbers of Bact. coli , the recovery was again much greater with alginate wool.