How To: Perform a microbiological analysis of food

The Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Alberta brings you this flash animated video tutorial specifically relevant to your student laboratory courses, specifically microbiology. If you're a student at any school of biology, this information will be helpful for learning how to perform a microbiological analysis of food.

To begin an analysis on food, you'll have to follow the steps:

1. Transferring the Meat
2. Shaking the Bottle
3. First Dilution (10-3)
4. Serial Dilution (10-4, 10-5, 10-5)
5. Plating the Dilutions
6. Incubating the Plates
7. Counting the Plates