IS 5887 : Part 6 : 2012/ISO 7932 : 2004 Microbiology of Food and Animal Feeding Stuffs Horizontal Method for the Enumeration of Presumptive Bacillus Cereus, Part 6 Colony-count Technique at 30o C
Reaffirmed 2022
NATIONAL FOREWORD
This Indian Standard (Part 6) (First Revision) which is identical with ISO 7932 : 2004 ‘Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs - Horizontal method for the enumeration of presumptive Bacillus cereus - Colony-count technique at 30 °C’ issued by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) was adopted by the Bureau of Indian Standards on the recommendation of the Food Hygiene, Safety Management and Other Systems Sectional Committee and approval of the Food and Agriculture Division Council.
This standard was originally published in 1970 and revised in 1976 into parts. Part 4 covering the methods for Clostridium welchii, Clostridium botulinum and Bacillus cereus. On a review by the technical committee responsible for formulating standards in this area, Part 4 was revised in 1999 to align the methods for Bacillus cereus with ISO 7932 : 1993 ‘Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs - Horizontal method for the enumeration of Bacillus cereus - Colony-count technique at 30°C’ and brought out a separate part, namely, Part 6, whereas the provisions for C. welchii and C. botulinum were updated and retained in Part 4. On review by the Food Hygiene, Safety Management and Other Systems Sectional Committee, Part 6 is now being revised to bring it in line with ISO 7932 : 2004.
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 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.