Review

• Determination of Microbial Shelf Life of Food-A Review ......Md. Latiful BARI...... 139

Education Lecture

• Cocktail Amplification System to Detect Live Bacteria in Foods ......Takayuki EZAKI...... 150

Symposium: Prospects for food microbiological testing in Japan

• Introduction ......Tsutomu ASAO and Takaomi WADA...... 158
• Setting Microbiological Criteria for Foods According to the Proposal by the ICMSF ......Fumiko KASUGA...... 159
• An Ideal Examination Method of Indicator Bacteria in Japan ......Tsutomu ASAO...... 163
• The Japanese Present Argument of Standardized Bacteriological Analytical Methods for Food Hygiene ......Shizunobu IGIMI...... 168
• To Establish Quality Assurance System for Food Microbiological Laboratories ......Hiroyuki TANAKA...... 172

Original

• Evaluation of RambaQUICK Salmonella for Rapid detection of Salmonella from Food Samples ......Riyo FURUKAWA, Michiko SAKAIRI, Yoshiko ISHIHARA, and Takamasa KANEKO...... 177

Short Paper

• Examination of the Effectiveness of Enterohemolysin Blood Agar for Detection of Shigella spp. from Foods ......Norinaga MIWA, Kazuhiro OZAWA, Emiko NAGASHIMA, Takashi MASUDA, Hirotaka KONUMA and Tokuhiro NISHINA...... 183

• Proceeding of the Society...... 187
• Information...... 190