Reaffirmed 2023

NATIONAL FOREWORD

This Indian Standard which is identical with ISO 6887-6 : 2013 ‘Microbiology of food and animal feed — Preparation of test samples, initial suspension and decimal dilutions for microbiological examination — Specific rules for the preparation of samples taken at the primary production stage’ issued by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) was adopted by the Bureau of Indian Standards on recommendation of the Food Hygiene, Safety Management and Other Systems Sectional Committee and approval of the Food and Agriculture Division Council.

The text of ISO Standard has been approved as suitable for publication as an Indian Standard without deviations. Certain terminologies and conventions are, however, not identical to those used in Indian Standards. Attention is particularly drawn to the following:

a) Wherever the words ‘International Standard’ appear referring to this standard, they should be read as ‘Indian Standard’.

b) Comma (,) has been used as a decimal marker, while in Indian Standards, the current practice is to use a point (.) as the decimal marker.