Antimicrobial Action Of Chitosan Against Spoilage Organism In Okpa

ABSTRACTThe antimicrobial action chitosan was investigated in this study. Chitosan was produce from snail shell, samples of okpa were prepared from chitosan (antimicrobial agent) of different concentrations (0.2, 0.6 and 0.10) and untreated okpa without chitosan was prepared and used as control. The okpa sample were packaged with cellophane, steamed for 1 hour, cooled and stored at ambient temperature (28%) for 24 hours, 48 hours, 72 hours, 96 hours. Microbial analysis of okpa sample was carried out and identified microorganism was: bacteria of the species; micrococcus, bacillus, pseudomonas, …