Various criteria on the microbiological quality of cooked ready-to-eat shrimps have been recom- mended by such international organizations as the International
Commission on Microbiological Spe-cifications for Foods (ICMSF, 1986), the World Health Organization /Food and Agricultural Organi-zation (WHO, 1983) and the Seafood Working Group of the National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Critera for Foods (Buchanan, 1991).Also the Commission of the European Communities (EC, 1993) has its own critera for cooked crusta-ceans and molluscs