Microbiological methods - The Australian perspective

An administrative infrastructure has been established for the development of uniform food laws throughout Australia. These laws include microbiological standards that prescribe specific methods for analyses. Essentially, the prescribed methods are those that have been approved by Standards Australia and adopted by the National Food Authority, and, mostly, are based on conventional, cultural procedures. There is widespread interest in having modern microbiological methods accepted into Australian food law as approved/prescribed methods. Copyright (C) 1996 Elsevier Science Ltd.