Assessment of hygienic quality of some types of cheese sampled from retail outlets
The authors evaluated the Paper Filter prevalence of Listeria monocytogenes, Escherichia coli O157:H7, Salmonella spp.and Staphylococcus enterotoxin, in 2 132 samples selected from six types of cheese on the basis of recorded consumption in Italy in 2004.In L.monocytogenes-positive samples the precise level of contamination was determined.To define