COMPARISON BETWEEN THE CLASSIC CULTURAL METHOD AND THE BIND FAST TEST FOR Salmonella sp RESEARCH IN FOOD

Abstract

This work is aimed to evaluate two survey methods for Salmonella in food, by means of simple comparison tests between the methods applied. The project was divided in two stages: the first, accomplished with standard strains, was aimed to verify the specificity of the methods, whereas the second part made the confrontation of the results obtained. The methods used were the Classic Cultural Method, indicated by AOAC, FDA, and by Brazilian Legislation as the chosen method for the research of Salmonella, and the BIND fast test, not mentioned as a method of common use, but already accepted by AOAC. The results demonstrated that there were no differences among the results presented by both methods, being the selection of applicable methodology up to the laboratories.