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BACTERIOLOGICAL METHODS 

 TABLE II. — {Continued) 



Number of Organisms per Cc. 



Name of Substance — 



Bacteria 



Tomato pulp'. . . . 

 Tomato pulp'. . . . 

 Imitation jam. - , Few 



Less than 

 5,000,000 



1,900,000,000 



Hyphae 



Yeasts 



Spores 



Less than Practically none 

 500,000 (1-3 per cent, 

 of fields). 

 37,000,000 Entirely per- 

 meated (100 

 per cent.). 

 30,000,000 Few : Few. 



Table III 



Name of Substance 



Maximum No. of Organisms per Cc. 

 Bacteria Yeasts 



Apple butter 5,000 to j 1,000,000 to 



I 1,000,000 ; 10,000,000 



Berries i Few I 500,000 



Catsup 10,000,000 to I Few 



50,000,000 



Cider 500,000 to 



2,000,000 

 Fruits Few 



Spores 



Hyphs 



^00,000 ■ 15 per cent. 

 500,000 18 per cent. 



Jams. 



Jellies i 



Marmalade' . 



Tomato pastes. . . 500,000,000 Few 



1,000,000 

 Few 



500,000 to ; 



5,000,000 



50,000 to ' 500,000 to 10 to 1 2 per cent. 



500,000 ' 1,000,000 



1,000,000 to 500,000 

 10,000,000 



1,000,000 



Few. 



10 per cent. 

 I to 5 per cent. 



Vinegars (fruit) . 



' Both samples were from large factories and represent the extremes in the factory 

 conditions. The first sample is from a factory where the conditions are what they 

 should be, the second from a factory where the conditions are just the reverse. 



2 Percentages given this column refer to the number of the 1/125 c.mm. areas of 

 the mold counter described in Fig.'5 which'contain'hyphal|clusters. As a rule abun- 

 dant spores indicate the presence of abundant hyphal tissue, and vice versa. 



' The organism in orange marmalade, under ordinary conditions of manufacture, 



