Front Cover -- Culture Media for Food Microbiology -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part 1: Reviews of media -- Chapter 1. Microbiological assessment of culture media -- comparison and statistical evaluation of methods -- Chapter 2. Principles involved in the detection and enumeration of clostridia in foods -- Chapter 3. Media for the detection and enumeration of Bacillus cereus in foods -- Chapter 4. Culture media for enterococci and group D streptococci -- Chapter 5. Culture media and methods for the isolation of Listeria monocytogenes.

Chapter 6. Media used in the detection and enumeration of Staphylococcus aureus -- Chapter 7. Culture media for non-sporulating Gram-positive food spoilage bacteria -- Chapter 8. Media for Aeromonas spp., Plesiomonas shigelloides and Pseudomonas spp. from food and environment -- Chapter 9. Culture media for the isolation of campylobacters -- Chapter 10. Media for coliforms, Escherichia coli and 'total' Enterobacteriaceae -- Chapter 11. Media for salmonella -- Chapter 12. Culture media for the isolation and enumeration of pathogenic Vibrio species in foods and environmental samples.

Chapter 13. Isolation of Yersinia enterocolitica from foods -- Chapter 14. Media for detecting and enumerating yeasts and moulds -- Part 2: Pharmacopoeia of culture media -- Notes on the use of the monographs -- Summary of organisms and recommended media -- All Purpose Tween (APT) agar-modified (for H2O2 detection) -- Aspergillus flavus and parasiticus agar (AFPA) -- Baird-Parker agar -- Baird-Parker liquid (LBP) medium -- Bile Oxalate Sorbose (BOS) broth -- Bismuth sulphite agar -- Briggs agar -- Brilliant Green Bile (BGB) broth -- Cefsulodin Irgasan Novobiocin (CIN) agar.

Cellobiose Polymyxin B Colistin (CPC) agar -- Cephaloridin Fucidin Cetrimide (CFC) agar -- Charcoal Cefoperazone Deoxycholate (CCD) agar -- modified -- Charcoal Cefoperazone Deoxycholate (CCD) broth -- Citrate Azide Tween Carbonate (CATC) agar -- Cresol red Thallium Acetate Sucrose (CTAS) agar -- Diagnostic Salmonella Selective Semisolid Medium (DIASALM) -- Dichloran Glycerol (DG18) agar -- Dichloran Rose Bengal Chloramphenicol (DRBC) agar -- Differential Reinforced Clostridial agar-Modified (mDRCM) -- Dominguez Rodriguez LSAMm agar -- Enterobacteriaceae Enrichment (EE) broth.

FDA Listeria enrichment broth -- Fraser broth -- modified -- Giolitti and Cantoni Broth (GCB) -- Hektoen Enteric (HE) agar -- Irgasan Ticarcillin Chlorate (ITC) broth -- Iron sulphite agar -- Kanamycin Aesculin Azide (KAA) agar -- KRANEP agar -- Lactobacillus Sorbic acid (LaS) agar (syn. sorbic acid agar base) -- Lauryl tryptose broth -- Levinthal broth with acriflavine and nalidixic acid -- Lithium chloride Ceftazidime Tween 80 (LCT) agar -- Lithium chloride Phenylethanol Moxalactam (LPM) agar -- L-S Differential (LSD) agar -- Lysine Iron Cystine Neutral Red (LICNR) broth -- M 17 agar.