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Experimental preservation of fish in aureomycin ice

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Title Experimental preservation of fish
in aureomycin ice
 
Creator Velankar, N K
Kamasastri, P V
 
Subject Fishery Technology
 
Description Exploratory work carried out in Canada during the last decade on the
comparative value of several chemicals and antibiotics in delaying fish
spoilage has indicated the possibility of increasing the storage life of iced
fish by incorporating trace quantities of antibiotics in the ice (Tarr et al,
1950; Boyd etal, 1953; Gillespie et al, 1955). Among the antibiotics
tried so far aureomycin gave most encouraging results, according to the
Canadian workers, who employed mainly the bacterial microscopic count
for objective evaluation of the quality of fish in storage. These workers
reported aureomycin to be effective at levels of 1 to 2 p.p.m. Velankar
(1957) who examined the effect of aureomycin on the growth of a number
of bacterial species isolated from marine sources, i.e., sea-water, marine mud,
plankton, fresh and spoiling sea-fish, found that at the level of 2 p.p.m.
aureomycin delayed growth in 40%, while at the level of 5 p.p.m. growth
was delayed in the case of 70%, of the bacteria. Work reported from the
Torry Research Station, Aberdeen, based on bacteriological, chemical and
organoleptic examination of the fish also indicates that a concentration of
5 p.p.m. of aureomycin in the ice is necessary for increasing the storage life
significantly (Ingram et al., 1956). The use of different species of fish,
and also different criteria for assessing the state of preservation of the fish
in storage, in the investigations of the Canadian and British workers probably
explain the different findings.
 
Publisher CMFRI/ICAR
 
Date 1958
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/1792/1/Article_11.pdf
Velankar, N K and Kamasastri, P V (1958) Experimental preservation of fish in aureomycin ice. Indian Journal of Fisheries, 5 (1). pp. 150-159.