Introduction: Contaminated poultry meat has been identified as one of the principal food

borne sources of Salmonella. Conventional culture method for detection of Salmonella

requires 4-6 days to processing ...

and reasons of carcass condemnations in a Poultry abattoir in Quchan city during a 41-month period.



Materials &Methods:

Meat-inspection records of a slaughterhouse in Quchan city, during March 2008 to August2011 were obtained. Data...