Type of Meat | Morphological Description of Colonies | Microscopic Appearance | Suspected Organism |
Muscles | Pink surface with white colour underneath | Conidiophores bear branched sterigmata, each with chain of conidiophores | Penicilium spp |
Yellow green surface with reddish brown underneath | The apex of the conidiophores is swollen into a vesicle from which arises bottle shaped cells, sterigmata which bear chains of secondary sterigma | Aspergillus flavus | |
Colony appeared to be round, white and creamy | Single cells oval in shape with some cells showing budding | Saccharomycetes | |
Black dusty and spongy throughout the storage time | Sporangiophores arise from long arching stolons opposite rhizoids | Rhizopus stolonifer | |
Darkish-brown colour to black pigmentation | Numerous mycelia with black conidiopores spherical to oval, produced in long chain | Aspergillus niger | |
Whitish cottony at first then grey as it grow older | Sporangiophores arise singly from mycelium at any point. All branches terminate in sporangia | Mucor |