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Title Quality of certain ready-to-eat fish products of the demestic trade
 
Names Iyer, T.S.G.
Varma, P.R.G.
Rao, C.C.P.
George Joseph, K.
Unnikrishnan Nair, T.S.
Date Issued 1986 (iso8601)
Abstract Quality of 181 samples of ready-to-eat fish products comprising fried fish, fish curry
and fish/prawn pickles collected from Cochin and Calicut were studied. Salmonella was
absent in all the samples. V. cholerae was tested. in the samples collected. at Cochin and was absent in all the cases. Coliforms, E. coli, faecal streptococci and coagulase-positive staphylococci were present in some of the samples studied. The study indicated
the necessity to improve the sanitary and hygienic conditions of the hotels engaged in
the preparation of these products. The study further indicated that fried fish and fish
curry shall not be served after 6 hours of their preparation. Added care is to be exercised
in the selection of shrimps and fish for the preparation of pickles.
Genre Article
Identifier Fish Technol.23(1):73-77