An administrative infrastructure has been established for the developm
ent of uniform food laws throughout Australia. These laws include micr
obiological standards that prescribe specific methods for analyses. Es
sentially, the prescribed methods are those that have been approved by
Standards Australia and adopted by the National Food Authority, and,
mostly, are based on conventional, cultural procedures. There is wides
pread interest in having modern microbiological methods accepted into
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