Isolation of salmonella from chicken cleaning machines in Al-Najaff and Al-Hilla provinces

الملخص EN

Chicken meat and its derivatives are among the foodstuffs considered by environmental health authorities to present the highest risks to the public.

A total of 50 samples were collected from different chicken cleaning machines, and tested for the present of Salmonella.

Environmental was carried out in Kauffman’s tetrathionate broth and isolation on Salmonella- Shigella agar, Brilliant-green agar and (15) isolates were classified as Salmonella and this isolation pattern of contamination suggests a problem in transfer of Salmonella from chicken meat to the public.