IS 18349 : Part 2 : 2025/ISO 15213-2 : 2023 Microbiology of the Food Chain - Horizontal Method for the Detection and Enumeration of Clostridium Spp. - Part 2 Enumeration of Clostridium perfringens by Colony-Count Technique
NATIONAL FOREWORD
!This Indian Standard (Part 2) which is identical with ISO 15213-2 : 2023 'Microbiology of the food chain - Horizontal method for the detection and enumeration of Clostridium spp. - Part 2: Enumeration of Clostridium perfringens by colony-count technique' issued by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) was adopted by the Bureau of Indian Standards on the recommendation of the Food Microbiology Sectional Committee and approval of the Food and Agriculture Division Council.
This standard is published in three parts. The other parts in this series are:
Part 1 Enumeration of sulfite-reducing Clostridium spp. by colony-count technique
Part 3 Detection of Clostridium perfringens
!The text of ISO standard has been approved as suitable for publication as an Indian Standard without deviations. Certain 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 beread as 'Indian Standard'; and
b) Comma (,) has been used as a decimal marker while in Indian Standards, the current practiceis to use a point (.) as the decimal marker.