Meaning of plate count | Babel Free

Definitions

A measure of bacterial contamination of a sample.

uncountable

Examples

“The microbiological quality can be roughly evaluated by analyzing the food for total plate count (TPC). In some foods, high TPC may indicate poor quality. Food which appears normal may have a high TPC, indicating that the food is about to […]”

“The total plate count for soy flour intended for human consumption should be less than 20,000 per gram; typical analyses of flours made under proper sanitary conditions range from 4,000 to 7,000 per gram.”

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