Abstract
The suitability of capacitance measurements by the Bactometer Monitoring System for a quick differentiation between good, poor and moderate quality of cod fillets, was tested.
The application of Brain Heart Infusion broth as growing medium for capacitance measurements gave very small differences between duplicate measurements, if any.
Both at 20 and 30°C these measurements correlated very well with the results of conventional methods for the determination of psychrophilic and mesophilic count respectively. The correlation coefficients were -0.93 and-0.95.
For raw fish like cod fillets, measurements at 20°C are to be preferred because bacteriological quality defects revealed at 20°C were masked at 30°C in some cases.
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van Spreekens, K.J.A., Stekelenburg, F.K. Rapid estimation of the bacteriological quality of fresh fish by impedance measurements. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 24, 95–96 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00266293
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00266293