Comparison between ICS-Vidas, MSRV and standard cultural method for Salmonella recovery in poultry meat

Two rapid methods for Salmonella detection, Vidas-ICS and modified semi-sol id Rappaport-Vassiliadis (MSRV) were evaluated using contaminated poultry m eat. The sensitivity and specificity of the methods were investigated on fi eld samples and on artificially contaminated samples inoculated with mixtur es of Salmonella and non-Salmonella competing strains. ICS-Vidas and MSRV y ielded virtually identical results, in full agreement with the standard cul tural method (SCM). The MSRV method showed better results with artificially contaminated samples, but was less sensitive than SCM when applied to fiel d samples. The use of the MSRV and Vidas-ICS methods could be particularly advantageous in the application of HACCP. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V. Al l rights reserved.