Inspection of micro flora changes in broiler carcass during slaughter processing operation

The poultry slaughter processing in abattoirs may result in carcass contamination with different pathogens. This survey was carried out to evaluate the slaughtering process effects on hygienic status of poultry carcass slaughtered in Kabul industrial abattoir. For this purpose, samples had taken from breast skin surface with swab and template randomly. Therefore, counting of total aerobic plate count, coliforms, E.coli and Staphylococcus aureus and detecting of Salmonella spp. were done in different slaughtering processes. The results showed that the cooling in chillers significantly (p