Quantification of Campylobacter contamination on chicken carcasses sold in retail markets in the United Arab Emirates

Table 1 Detection and average counts of Campylobacter in 315 chilled whole chicken carcasses sampled from supermarkets in the United Arab Emirates

Company^a	Production and processing site	Samples number	No. recovered by direct plating (%)^b	Average log₁₀ CFU/g ± SD
A	Abu Dhabi/Al Ain (UAE)	52	12 (23.1)	2.91 ± 0.98
B	Al Ain (UAE)	30	3 (10.0)	2.62 ± 0.34
C	Abu Dhabi (UAE)	50	13 (26.0)	2.70 ± 0.42
D	Abu Dhabi (UAE)	53	20 (37.7)	2.73 ± 0.48
E	Dubai (UAE)	50	14 (28.0)	2.42 ± 0.34
F	Imported (Saudi Arabia)	30	0 (−)	–
G	Al Ain (UAE)	50	28 (56.0)	2.82 ± 0.31
Total		315	90 (28.6)	2.70 ± 0.41

^aArbitrarily identification letters were assigned for each company
^bNumber of carcasses with ≥ the quantification limit (1 log₁₀ CFU/g) for direct plating methods

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