Microbiological Quality Assessment of Dairy Desserts Sold in New Valley Governorate

Abstract

A hundred fifty randomly collected samples of ice cream, rice pudding and mahlabia (50 samples each) from different localities in El-Dakhla city, New Valley Governorate, Egypt, were microbiologically examined. The average counts of the aerobic plate, psychrotrophic bacteria, total coliforms, fecal coliforms, Staphylococcus aureus counts and yeast and mold in the examined ice-cream samples were 6