Table 1.

Colony counts for the wooden cutting board and meat samples.

Sample	Colony Count
Fresh meat from the wet market	1.90 × 104 ± 2.25 × 104 a
Processed meat from the wet market	1.85 × 104 ± 6.17 × 103 a
Fresh meat from the local supermarket	9.31 × 102 ± 7.44 × 102 a
Processed meat from the local supermarket	9.02 × 103 ± 8.42 × 103 a
Imported fresh meat	8.1 × 101 ± 6.3 × 101 a
Imported processed meat	1.98 × 104 ± 2.0 × 103 a
Purchased wooden cutting board	2.26 × 106 ± 5.37 × 105 b

^a CFU/g, ^b CFU/cm².