Using Microwave as a Decontaminated Equipment for Frozen Sheep Meats

Nadia Ibrahim Abdul aali | Dahfer Abed Ali Alobaidi

Abstract: This study was carried out at the college of veterinary medicine, University of Baghdad, for three months, the aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of different times of microwave oven on the freezing sheep meat to reduced limited of bacteria on meat, Exposure three periods of microwave (10, 15 and 20) seconds. The data obtained revealed the following results were significant differences (P< 0.05) between the means of bacterial count before exposure of microwave were limited of ranges (5.30 5.51) log cfu/g meat and total coliform were ranges (1.88 2.04) log cfu/ g meat. The third times of exposure of microwave (25) seconds were significant difference (p<0.05) between the data count, were reduced total of bacterial count for above 1.2 log were range (4.06 4.17) log cfu/g meat and total coliform were range (0.27 0.62) log cfu /g meat.

Keywords: Microwave, frozen sheep meat, Total bacterial count

Edition: Volume 6 Issue 1, January 2017,

Pages: 1426 - 1428