Table 1.
Quantity of microbial contamination of dietary supplements and raw materials for the production of dietary supplements.
| Plant component | Number of samples tested (n) | TAMC |
TYMC |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of CFU/g (range) | Samples showing contamination ()* | Number of CFU/g (range) | Samples showing contamination ()** | ||
| Dietary supplements | |||||
| European blueberry fruit (lac. Vaccinium myrtillus) | 50 | <1,0 × 101–2,0 × 105 | 48 (1) | 1,0 × 101–7 × 104 | 50 (2) |
| Powder from banana (lac. Musa L.) | 10 | <1,0 × 101–2,0 × 101 | 3 (0) | 2,0 × 101–6,0 × 101 | 10 (0) |
| Hawthorn berry (lac. Crataegus laevigata) | 10 | 4,0 × 101–4,0 × 103 | 10 (0) | 1,0 × 101–8,0 × 101 | 10 (0) |
| Jerusalem artichoke root (lac. Helianthus tuberosus L.) | 14 | 5,0 × 101–7,0 × 105 | 14 (2) | <1,0 × 101–7,0 × 102 | 11 (0) |
| Raspberry fruit (lac. Rubus idaeus L.) | 10 | <1,0 × 101–3,0 × 102 | 7 (0) | 1,0 × 101–4,0 × 104 | 10 (2) |
| Common flax semen (lac. Linum usitatissimum L.) | 20 | 1,0 × 101–6,0 × 106 | 20 (2) | <1,0 × 101–4,0 × 104 | 7 (1) |
| Globe artichoke leaves extract (lac. Cynara scolymus) | 8 | 1,0 × 101–3,0 × 105 | 8 (1) | 1,0 × 101–2,0 × 102 | 8 (0) |
| Raw materials for the production of dietary supplements | |||||
| Nettle herb (lac. Urtica dioica L.) | 5 | 8,0 × 101–2,5 × 105 | 5 (2) | 6,0 × 101–4,0 × 105 | 5 (2) |
| Tomatose extract (lac. Solanum lycopersicum) | 10 | 3,0 × 101–2,0 × 104 | 10 (0) | 2,0 × 101–6,0 × 104 | 10 (3) |
| Fructus extract (lac. Sambucus nigra L.) | 5 | 3,0 × 101–7,0 × 101 | 5 (0) | 1,0 × 101–9,0 × 104 | 5 (1) |
| Mullein flower extract (lac. Verbascum L.) | 5 | 1,0 × 101–8,0 × 101 | 5 (0) | <1,0 × 101–1,0 × 102 | 2 (0) |
| Gentian extract (lac. Gentiana L.) | 5 | 3,0 × 101–1,7 × 102 | 5 (0) | <1,0 × 101–1,0 × 102 | 4 (0) |
()* numer of samples showing contamination >105 CFU/g; ()** numer of samples showing contamination >104 CFU/g; CFU – colony forming units; TAMC – number of aerobic bacteria; TYMC – number of molds and yeasts.