Hygienic quality of Frozen meat

ABSTRACT

International meat trade has been recognised as a vehicle of transmission of diseases. This study was conducted to evaluate the hygienic quality of frozen meat imported to Qatar. The data revealed that Indian meat had a higher bacterial count [7.4x10[5] compared to English meat 5.4x10[3]. No Salmonella could be recovered from any source of meat other than Indian meat, where Salmonella was isolated from 12 consignments of Indian meat [16.6%]