Evaluation of microbial contamination of Season Salads in URMIA food and drug control lab (during years of 2017-2018)

For this purpose, in this article has been evaluated microbial quality of Season Salads which are distributed in restaurants of Western Azarbaijan province of Iran. Aim of this paper is of Checking of food products safety level consumed by population and Improving of food products safety level by assumption of true solutions.Samples were collected in completely sterile condition from this province s restaurants and transferred to the microbiological laboratory of Urmia food and drug control lab. All microbiological analyses were performed based on microbiological order of food and drug organization and in the mentioned manners of ISIRI (Iranian National Standards Organization).Samples were evaluated from the point of contamination by Escherichia, Enterococcus, Molds, Listeria monocytogenes, Salmonella species, Staphylococcus aureus, Yersinia enterocolitica and determination of Total count contamination levels.From 52 of Salads samples, 33 cases of them were not in accordance with national microbiological order of Iranian Food and Drug Organization from point of view of contamination by Escherichia, Enterococcus, Molds and high levels of Total count contamination.From inspection of results, we can conclude the situation in case of restaurant salads in Western Azarbaijan province of Iran from point of microbial contamination needs much attention of producers and food authorities for obtaining better results.

Keywords:

Microbial contamination , Season salads and West Azarbaijan Province