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Table 3 The analysis of variance’s mean of squares table for the reduction of microbial load from surfaces of the milk containers

From: Effectiveness of the sanitation regimes used by dairy actors to control microbial contamination of plastic jerry cans’ surfaces

Source of variation

DF

TVC

TCC

LAB

Treatment

4

20.319***

14.299***

12.520***

Commercial scourer

1

0.699*

0.432*

0.103ns

Treatment* Commercial scourer

4

3.575***

3.405***

0.635ns

Replication

2

0.061

0.405

0.247

Error

50

0.269

0.349

0.267

  1. Key: C.V coefficient of variation, S.D standard deviation and R 2 coefficient of determination ns not significant at P = 0.05, *significant at P < 0.05, **significant at P < 0.01 and ***significant at P < 0.001