EVALUATION OF PATHOGENIC COLIFORM BACTERIA IN PROCESSED EGGS IN AND AROUND MADRAS CITY

摘要

Eggs have become one of the most essential edible commodities in the diet of a common man's life. The inclusion of eggs in human diet has enabled to improve the quality of food and hence helped in filling up the protein gap and ensuring better health.The eggs contain highly nutritious substances and hence more prone to spoilage. The bacteria as such and their toxins produced, highly affect the health status of human beings consuming such spoilt/apparently normal eggs. Bacterial spoilage usually caused by gram-negative proteolytic bacteria may produce mustiness or rotting (Moats, 1979).