ORIGINAL_ARTICLE Microbiological studies on chicken meat and carcasses are well documented, but very few studies exist on goose meat and carcasses. Therefore, in this study, dried goose carcass samples were collected from the local households in Kars/Turkey and microbiologically analyzed in terms of public health risks. The total mesophilic viable count was found to be 6.58 (mean log10 CFU g-1) (100%). The number of Enterobacteriaceae was 4.85 (92.8%). Coliform bacteria was counted at the numbers of 2.98 (67.8%), while it was 3.95 (91.1%) for the enterococci, 0.42 (26.7%) for the clostridia, 0.04 (3.5%) for the Clostridium perfringens, and 0.41 (12.5%) for the coagulase positive staphylococci. The numbers of mould and yeast were 0.93 (25%) and 4.81 (94.6%), respectively. Salmonellae and Bacillus cereus could not be isolated in the samples. The results indicate that the dried goose meat samples had poor hygienic quality, contained some of the pathogen microorganisms that are likely to pose a potential health risk. https://macvetrev.mk/Files/Article/2019/10.1515/macvetrev-2016-0078/macvetrev-2016-0078.pdf 2016-10-15T09:00:00 143 152 10.2478/macvetrev-2016-0078 goose poultry dried meat carcass microbiological quality Ufuk Kamber ufukkamber@hotmail.com false 1 Food Safety and Health Department, Veterinary Faculty, Kafkas University, Kars, Turkey LEAD_AUTHOR Hilmi Yaman false 2 Nutrition and Dietetics Department, School of Health Sciences, Adnan Menderes University, Aydın, Turkey AUTHOR Anon. Turkey Statistical Institute database Internet web site statistics 2015; Access date: 09.03.2015 http://tuikapp.tuik.gov.tr/hayvancilikapp/hayvancilik.zul,. 1 Selcuk E, Akyurt I, Geliyi C, Goose breeding. 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