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. 2018 Mar 19;27(4):1219–1225. doi: 10.1007/s10068-018-0356-7

Table 1.

Total aerobic plate counts for raw pork loins collected from meat packing centers and meat shops across Korea over a five-year period (2010–2014)

Place Total aerobic plate counta
≤ 103 103 < – ≤ 104 104 < – ≤ 105 105 < – ≤ 106 106 < – ≤ 107 107 <
Meat packing centers
(n = 3205)		 1132b
(35.32)c 		1125
(35.10)		 706
(22.03)		 198
(6.18)		 43
(1.34)		 1
(0.03)
Meat shops
(n = 4315)		 902
(20.90)		 1124
(26.05)		 1156
(26.79)		 803
(18.61)		 293
(6.79)		 37
(0.86)

Above data was obtained from the Korean Ministry of Food and Drug Safety

aCFU/g

bNumber of samples

cPercentage of the total number of samples (%)