ANALISIS CEMARAN MIKROBA PADA IKAN ASIN AIR TAWAR DI SAMARINDA

Abstract

Food borne disease is recently happening in society, due to biological and chemical contamination in food. Fish is one kind of food which has a high chance to contaminated by biological and chemical compounds because disintegration process. One way to prevent contamination is preserving with making a salted fish. This research was to know microbial contamination in salted fish on Samarinda. The microbiological test was done on 3 samples. The samples was taken from salted fish producer on Samarinda. The microbiological test include investigation total microbe amount with Total Plate Count (TPC) method and microbiological investigation with Most Probable Number (MPN) method and also identification of Coliform and pathogen bacterial such as Escherichia coli and Salmonella thyposa. The result show that from 3 samples of salted fish were contain microbe contamination, but not exceed the limit which fixed by Indonesian National Standart.