Food Safety on Meat Products Based on Coliform Contamination

Abstract

Meats commonly consumed by the Indonesian people are derived from cattle, buffalo, sheep, goats, chickens, ducks and rabbits. Meat is needed to fulfill nutritional needs. Meat can be processed into products such as minced meat, nuggets, corned beef, meatball, sausage and crispy fried chicken. Consumers interested in buying crispy fried chicken sold by street vendors without paying attention into sanitation aspects. Minced meat and corned beef can be obtained in traditional markets. The purpose of this research is to investigate the presence of coliform bacterial contamination on meat products (crispy fried chicken, corned beef, chickens carcass) sold in traditional and modern markets. This research is an explorative study. The sample of crispy fried chicken was obtained from street vendors, while minced meat and corned beef in sachets were obtained from modern market with five replications of each samples. Parameters of this research were the number of coliforms using MPN and observation on fecal and non-fecal colonies. The data obtained analyzed descriptively and compared with Maximum Limit of Microbial contamination of BPOM in 2009 The results showed that the amount of coliform of crispy fried chicken, corned beef and chicken carcass were safe to consume which were lower than the requirement of BPOM 2009 that was 10 MPN/g. However, non-fecal and fecal colonies found were needed to be anticipated.