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Common Micro Organisms Responsible For Spoilage of Food

Food

Types of spoilage

Associates microbes

(a) Fruits and Vegetables

Sort rot
Black mould rot Grey mould rot

Rhizopus, Erwinia
Aspergillus, niger
Botrytis

(b) Bread

Mouldy
Ropy

Rhizopus stolonifer, Aspergillus niger; Penicillium, Mucor
Bacillus

(c) Processed meat

Mouldy

Souring

Greening

Slimy

Aspergillus, Rhizopus, Penicillium
Micrococcus, Pseudomonas, Bacillus
Leuconostoc, Lactobacillus, Pediococci
Leuconostoc

(d) Fish

Putrefaction

Flavobacterium, Micrococus, Halobacterium

(e) Eggs

Green rot
Black rot
Red rot

Pseudomonas fluorescens
Proteus
Serratia marcescens

(f) Pickles, fresh meat

Putrefaction

Rhodotorula, Clostridium, Pseudomonas, Pr, vulgaris, Alcaligenes

(g) Con. orange juice

Off-flavour

Acetobacter; Leuconostoc, Lactobacillus


 

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