The Importance of Endospore-Forming Bacteria Originating from Soil for Contamination of Industrial Food Processing
Table 2
Recent data on presence of B. cereus, C. tyrobutyricum, or butyric acid spores, C. botulinum, C. perfringens, C. estertheticum, or C. gasigenes in soil, agricultural samples, or raw milk.
aaverage concentration as indicated in table; bminimum and maximum value; cmedian concentration as indicated in table; dextreme value; eprior to feedlotting; fat day 76 of feedlotting; gsamples analysed for B. cereus count for cows housed in barn all day in housing period (November–April); hsamples analysed for B. cereus count for cows at pasture 24 h per day during grazing period (May to October); isamples analysed for B. cereus count for cows at pasture during daytime during grazing period (May to October); jsamples collected between January and December on 24 farms; ksoils not changed by people; lsoils changed by people (cultivated, urbanized, industrialized); mculture based detection; nDNA based detection.