“…In presence of meat matrix, strong absorbance peaks had been also been observed in 1200-800 cm −1 and 3,000-2,500 cm corresponds to "Fingerprint region" in bacterial identification. Brandily et al (2011) had also identified regions 3,000-2,800 cm −1 and 1,800-1,000 cm −1 as providing the greatest contribution to the total variance in the FT-IR spectral data acquired for detection of Listeria monocytogenes, Staphylococcus aureus and Salmonella enteritidis in minced meat, sausage meat and raw cheese matrix. Thus the spectral regions 3,000-2,500 cm −1 (I), 1,800-1,200 cm −1 (II), 1,200-800 cm −1 (III), 4,000-575 cm −1 (IV) and combination of 3,000-2,500 cm −1 , 1,800-1,200 cm −1 and 1,200-800 cm −1 (V) were selected for classification and discriminant analysis in dataset 3.…”