Incidence of Food-borne Pathogens in Freshwater Fish from Domestic Markets of Mumbai

摘要

Food-bome diseases are associated with fish and fishery products. Biotoxins, histamines and viruses cause large proportion of these outbreaks. Fishery products are also recognized as carrier of food-borne bacterial pathogens like Salmonella spp., Vibrio spp., E. coli, S. aureus, and Listeria spp. (Venugopal et ah, 1999, 2002). The pathogenic organisms are present on the fish itself or in the aquatic environment around the fish; however, the presence of pathogenic bacteria in and around fish is low (Huss, 1997). Studies on seafood meant for export from India have shown that a large percentage of these products are contaminated with Salmonella (Varma et al, 1985; Kamat et ah, 2003; Kumar et al, 2003; Bandekar et al, 2004).