Comparison of Two Procedures for Detection of Salmonellain Food, Feed, and Pharmaceutical Products1

A survey of food, feed, and pharmaceutical products was undertaken to compare an accelerated Salmonelladetection procedure by enrichment serology (ES) to the traditional procedure outlined in the Bacteriological Analytical Manual(BAM). Excellent agreement between the two methods was obtained in the results of 689 test samples involving 35 different products. In addition to being more rapid and simpler to perform, the ES procedure was just as accurate and sensitive as the BAM procedure.