Source: Michael Fielding, MEATINGPLACE, 7/26/11

The USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service has made several changes to its Laboratory Guidebook including broadening acceptable protocols for campylobacter testing in poultry products.   

Updates to chapter MLG 41.01 (“Isolation, Identification and Enumeration of Campylobacter jejuni/coli/lari from Poultry Rinse and Sponge Samples”) take effect Aug. 1. They include suggested alternatives to the McFarland standard that is used to adjust the turbidity of bacterial suspensions in preparing the control culture.

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