“…We used the recovery of this organism as substantiative evidence of inspectional observations within a given plant for confirmation of insanitary practices. From this standpoint, we feel that E. coli recoveries more clearly reflect an abnormal sanitary condition in a plant (Pederson and Skinner, 1955). The enterococci, although of some apparent significance in the tempering process, do not serve as well, since they were present in all market samples, even though in-plant sanitation was adequate.…”