Table 3.

Correlation coefficients between plate count and TEMPO® methods for the enumeration of bacterial quality indicators in ACMS and NCMS contaminated samples.

	Total aerobic	Enterobacteriaceae	S. aureus	Bacillus
	flora			cereus
Enumeration range* (log/ml)	0–5	0–5	0–4	0–4
Correlation (R2)
NCMS	0.976	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
ACMS buffered peptone water	n.a.	0.996	0.990	0.994
Artificially contaminated milk	n.a.	0.995	0.948	0.990

^*A minimum of four dilutions were teste (n = 3).

n.a., not available.