2012年11月9日 · ATP vs. APC, Yeast and Mold testing - posted in Lab Management & Testing: Hey, I'm part of a mid-sized food package manufacturing plant, and we're beginning our SQF certification process. We have heard from a local company similar to us that they test for APC (aerobic plate count, aka total plate count), Yeast and Mold through an outside laboratory. We want to perform this test as a way to ...

2014年3月17日 · What's the difference between APC and Coliform testing? - posted in Food Microbiology: Hi Everyone, So i have been requested by a customer to start testing for coliforms in house. We currently send our products out along with water samples for coliform testing. We also are testing for APC, ATP and yeast & mold. Whats the difference between APC and Coliform testing. They both are verifying the ...

2021年4月5日 · Our critical limits for micro testing are listed in our food safety plan " CCP#2, Listeria results are negative, APC results less than 9,999 cfu/g, coliform counts less than 10 cfu/g" The ingredients we have in the product are: heat treated flour, sugar, water, baking soda, milk powder, salt, sprinkles, cocoa, chocolate, margarine

2018年9月8日 · APC surface and sanitizers - posted in Lab Management & Testing: HI all, I was asked to do some baseline APC surface testing. The testing is for zone 1 on items that have been cleaned but not sanitized. Does this sound correct? What is …

2025年1月20日 · APC Counts in Baked Product - posted in Food Microbiology: We have a baked product whose process has a validated kill step achieving over a 5-log reduction. One of our products is shipped to Canada so we send it for APC, Coliform and Y&M testing before release and shipment. Recently, we have been struggling with out of spec APC results (spec limit is <1,000 which I believe is too low anyway ...

2017年1月18日 · Is there a difference between APC and HPC? - posted in Lab Management & Testing: We are starting to test in-house for HPC (water bottling facility), just wondering if using APC methods would give the same results. Looking to use a rapid / 3M petrifilm type of method. Anyone with experience related to this?

2021年5月16日 · The testing with hygienas unit only gives me a qualitative result for APC and coliform in RLUs. this daily testing would not take the place of our 3rd party testing on product samples which gives us a quantitative result. I would have the 3rd party lab verify on a quarterly basis that our hygiena unit matched their qualitative results in their lab

2021年8月16日 · I do not have support from my boss to send any of the product for microbial testing, which is why I’ve been searching for some reference material/ a deeper understanding on APC swab results on food contact surfaces in relation to poultry. In regards to the primary objective of my post.

2017年8月10日 · indicator is the Aerobic Plate Count (APC) – APC’s cannot be used as a safety indicator for pathogens because in almost all cases there is no correlation . From this information, would it be ok for me to reduce testing frequency of TPC for these points or is it essential that TPC/EB as micro indicators is needed for EMP?

2022年10月17日 · Slower APC Plates? - posted in Lab Management & Testing: Hi everyone, We would like to begin daily APC testing but have the issue of our current aerobic plate count petrifilm plates from 3M taking 48 hours to incubate. If we test on Thursday or Friday, someone will need to come in on the weekend to remove the plates from the incubator, which we would like to avoid since we operate M-F. I was ...