25 g of test sample (meat) was weighed and blended in
a stomacher machine for 2 minutes. A gram of the sample
was weighed out and homogenised in 9mls buffered
peptone water (LabM, UK) to give a dilution of 1:10. A
six-fold serial dilution was then prepared. 0.1 ml of dilutions
10−6 and 10−5 for every sample was respectively
plated on plate count agar (PCA) (Biomark, India) for
aerobic plate count determination and on McConkey
agar (MCA) (LabM, UK) for Enterobacteriaceae (enteric
bacteria) counts. The PCA and MCA were both incubated
overnight (18–24 hours) at 37°C