Detecção de Escherichia coli e coliformes totais e termotolerantes em sushis comercializados nos shoppings da cidade de Belém

• Autor(a) principal: da Silva da Costa, Elisson Yan
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Serra Monteiro, Liliane, da Cruz Ratts, Mayanne, Oliveira Rocha, Amanda Gabriella, da Silvia Ferreira, Marinalva Laize, do Sacramento de Oliveira, Andrey Carlos
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Brazilian Journal of Implantology and Health Sciences
• Texto Completo: https://bjihs.emnuvens.com.br/bjihs/article/view/698
• topic: Microrganismos indicadores; COLItest; Segurança alimentar; Indicator microorganisms; COLItest; Food safety

In the metropolitan region of Belém, the consumption of foods from Japanese cuisine has been growing, this is evident from the growth in points selling this product in the city's shopping malls. This has awakened the need to find viable quality control methodologies for this product, in order to avoid outbreaks of food poisoning. The fact that sushi preparation involves extensive manual manipulation and is consumed without heating, presents a high risk of contamination by microorganisms that indicate microbiological contamination. Therefore, the objective of the present work was to detect the presence of Escherichia coli and total and thermotolerant coliforms in sushi sold in shopping malls in the city of Belém. The COLItest® commercial kit was used and it was concluded that 100% of the samples analyzed were if contaminated with total and thermotolerant coliforms.