Detectability of Erythromycin in Eight Milk Products Using the AOAC Bacillus stearothermophilus Disc Assay
Kathleen T Rajkowski1, James T Peeler1, James W Messer1
1Division of Microbiology, Food and Drug Administration, 1090 Tusculum Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio 45226.
Journal of Food Protection
|April 18, 2019
Abstract:
A comparison was made of the ability of the AOAC Bacillus stearothermophilus disc method using Antibiotic Medium 4(A4) and Penicillin in Milk (PM) assay agar to detect erythromycin in eight milk products. PM assay agar outperformed A4 agar by 470%, producing an average detectable level of 0.26 ppm (range 0.16-0.37 ppm), and is the medium of choice for the detection of erythromycin by this method.
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