background; foods have been many changes from production to tables and continuous control is necessary to maintain food safety and supply foods with good quality. the aim of this study was to evaluate the quality of some foods with high consumption in zanjan city during the 5 years from 2009 to 2013. methods; in a case-control descriptive study with an annually control program during 5 years fr...

from august to october 1996, three different statistical communities of spices, including 37, 41, 26 samples for each one of black pepper, turmeric and sumac, respectively, were taken randomly from 35 various packaged labels and 2 production centres, in the west of tehran, and examine for assessing fungi and bacterial contamination by using ec, vrbl agar lst, brilliant green media, and compare ...

vegetables, used in preparing salads, are most important part of the diet. these materials are often irrigated by untreated urban wastewater. wastewater, contaminated with ova of parasites, bacteria and protozoa, are used as fertilizers and it can cause a variety of infectious diseases. the purpose of this study is detection of microbial contamination of salad used in ilam’s restaurants. in thi...

the risk of disease spread through water, fruits and vegetables contaminated through unclean waters varies from region to another. springs and underground water resources are essentially free of germs or they have tolerable levels of germs; unless they are infected by surface water or human excreta. scientific reports have shown that outbreaks of food-borne illnesses especially foods such as fr...

there is possibility of microbial contamination of any single-dose vials (sdvs), multiple-dose vials (mdvs) and admixtures (adxs) during the preparation and injection to the patients that could be resulted in bloodstream infection. the goal of this study was to investigate the microbial contamination of mdvs and sdvs after multiple use and adxs prepared by nursing staff in the treatment room ve...

Background & Aims of the Study: Given the importance of microbial contamination in creating food-borne diseases, this study was conducted to assess level of microbial contamination of pastry creams in Hamedan, Iran. Materials and Methods: Totally, 80 samples were randomly collected from the confectioneries and analyzed for microbial contamination according to Iranian nati...

purpose: to determine bacterial contamination of corneas and corneal storage media provided from the eye bank of i.r. iran to rasool akram medical center. methods: this descriptive study was performed on 70 corneoscleral rims and corneal storage media. one milliliter of corneal storage media and the corneoscleral rim were sent to microbiology laboratory at the time of penetrating keratoplasty a...

conclusions the study showed that elevator buttons could lead to transmission of pathogenic bacteria. it is necessary to clean and disinfect elevator buttons daily, especially in departments with high contamination potential such as laboratories, particularly in biological laboratories and pilot plant rooms. methods the study was a across sectional research. samples were taken from elevator but...

pharmaceutical products prepared in pharmacies have the potential of contamination with different microorganisms. this is in part due to the unhygienic environment and also lack of a suitable preservative system. in this study, microbial quality of eucerin-urea ointments prepared at different pharmacies in tehran, at the point of sale and also after two weeks storage at room temperature was exa...