Table 5.
Microbiological quality of tomato collected from 12 different markets of Dhaka city.
| Market types | Locations | Average microbial population (Log CFU/gm) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total aerobic bacterial count | Total coliform count | E. coli | Salmonella spp. | Staphylococcus spp. | ||
| Sophisticated shops (2) | Agora, Gulshan-2 | 4.29 ± 0.09 | 3.36 ± 0.28 | 1.78 ± 0.18 | <1.0 | 3.30 ± 0.00 |
| Mena Bazar, Uttara | 4.14 ± 0.03 | 3.43 ± 0.07 | 1.75 ± 0.21 | <1.0 | 2.5 ± 0.04 | |
| Wholesale markets (4) | Mirpur-1 | 5.39 ± 0.05 | 3.57 ± 0.09 | 2.42 ± 0.09 | <1.0 | 2.45 ± 0.21 |
| Karwanbazar | 5.09 ± 0.13 | 4.05 ± 0.21 | <1.0 | <1.0 | <1.0 | |
| Jatrabari Bazar | 6.44 ± 0.09 | 5.57 ± 0.17 | 2.42 ± 0.42 | 2.52 ± 0.52 | 3.47 ± 0.10 | |
| Syambazar | 6.95 ± 0.31 | 5.66 ± 0.00 | 2.31 ± 0.08 | 2.08 ± 0.18 | 2.71 ± 0.06 | |
| Retail markets (6) | Uttara- 3 | 5.50 ± 0.74 | 4.78 ± 0.02 | 1.69 ± 0.12 | <1.0 | 2.71 ± 0.12 |
| Tejgaon colony bazar | 5.43 ± 0.05 | 3.84 ± 0.08 | <1.0 | <1.0 | 3.14 ± 0.08 | |
| Khilkhet | 5.28 ± 0.18 | 3.75 ± 0.04 | <1.0 | <1.0 | 2.30 ± 0.00 | |
| Mohakhali | 5.95 ± 0.04 | 4.19 ± 0.01 | 1.78 ± 0.18 | <1.0 | 3.51 ± 0.00 | |
| Bashundhara R/A | 5.72 ± 0.05 | 4.30 ± 0.09 | 1.75 ± 0.21 | <1.0 | 3.43 ± 0.17 | |
| New market | 5.24 ± 0.00 | 4.85 ± 0.04 | <1.0 | <1.0 | 3.25 ± 0.00 | |
*The average values of three individual trial ± SD; <1.0 = not detected.