Revised Standard from Last Update.

NATIONAL FOREWORD

This Indian Standard (First Revision) which is identical with ISO 6888-2 : 2021 ‘Microbiology of the food chain - Horizontal method for the enumeration of coagulase-positive staphylococci (Staphylococcus aureus and other species) - Part 2 : Method using rabbit plasma fibrinogen agar medium’ issued by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), was adopted by the Bureau of Indian Standards on the recommendation of the Microbiology Sectional Committee and approval of the Food and Agriculture Division Council.

IS 5887 was originally published in 1970 and first revised in 1976 when it was split into various parts with Part 2 covering the isolation, identification and enumeration of Staphylococcus aureus and faecal streptococci. On a review by the technical committee responsible for formulating standards in this area, it was decided to separate the provisions by identically adopting the ISO Standards on the subject with the advanced method covering enumeration of coagulase-positive staphylococci (Staphylococcus aureus and other species).