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The numbers and types of microorganisms on fresh rock cod fillets and fillets stored in air or in a modified atmosphere (MA; 80% CO2, 20% air) at 4°C were compared. Samples were analyzed after 0, 7, 14, and 21 days of storage. The isolation plates were incubated aerobically, anaerobically, or under MA at 4, 20, or 35°C. After 7 days of storage in air, the fillets were obviously spoiled and had a 3to 4-log cycle increase in microbial counts. Plate counts increased more slowly on MA-stored fillets. After 21 days, the counts on the latter had increased only 2 log cycles, and the fillets did not seem spoiled. The microbial flora changed greatly during MA storage. Only Lactobacillus spp. (70%) and an Aeromonas sp.like isolate (30%) were found on plates incubated aerobically at 4 and 20°C, and only Lactobacillus spp. was found on plates incubated aerobically and anaerobically at 35 and at 20°C under MA. Isolation plates incubated at 20°C in air gave the highest counts in the shortest incubation time and the greatest diversity of bacterial types recovered. No Vibrio parahaemolyticus, Staphylococcus aureus, or Clostridium botulinum type E were isolated from the fresh or MA-stored fillets.

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In Discipline and Punish the police is a state institution isomorphic with the prison. In his Collège de France lectures, Foucault unearths a 'secret history of the police' where greater attention is paid to public health, social welfare and regulating the marketplace than investigating and arresting criminals. This broad overview of Foucault's writings on the police exhibits a 'splintering-effect' in his modalities of power. To resolve this apparent contradiction, a nominalist reading that conflates Foucault's divergent paradigms of power results in a more multifaceted history and a ubiquitous mode of power with diverse and precise techniques. There are strengths and weaknesses in Foucault's theory when applied to modern neoliberal police. Foucault should not be employed for one-dimensional criticisms of modern police or as an analytical cure-all.

A second generation nucleic acid hybridization assay has been developed and evaluated against the conventional culture method for detection of salmonellae In foods. The assay Involves a liquid hybridization with Sa/mone/fo-speclflc oligonucleotide probes, capture of probe:target hybrids onto a solid support (plastic dipstick), and a colorimetric end point detection. The assay can be completed In 2.5 h, following approximately 44 h of culture enrichment. One thousand samples representing 20 food types were analyzed in parallel by both methods. Samples Included unlnoculated test product, and product Inoculated with Salmonella at 2 levels. Eighteen Salmonella serotypes were used as Inocula. The data demonstrate that the colorlmetric hybridization method and the conventional culture method are equivalent In their ability to detect Salmonella contamination of foods.