Research, Policy and Practice
Microbial load/sample | Smoked containers (log10 cfu/cm2) | Chlorine-disinfected container (log10 cfu/cm2) | Plain-water-washed non-treated plastic container (log10 cfu/cm2) |
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TVC | 4.64 ± 0.43a | 3.47 ± 0.06b | 5.99 ± 1.03c |
TCC | 4.00 ± 0.66a | 2.55 ± 0.02b | 5.07 ± 0.91c |
LAB | 3.75 ± 0.59a | 0.89 ± 0.24b | 4.81 ± 0.81c |