METHOD FOR COLLECTING A SAMPLE OF MICROORGANISMS FROM THE SURFACE OF A SOLID MATERIAL USING A CONTACTLESS PARTITIONING SYSTEM, AND APPARATUS FOR PARTITIONING THE SURFACE OF THE SOLID MATERIAL

摘要

The present invention relates to collecting a microbial sample for use in the preparation of a test sample solution provided in the microbial test method of the Korean Food Standards Codex, and more particularly to a method for collecting a microbial sample from a solid surface using a contactless partitioning method and an apparatus for partitioning a sampling region on a solid surface, in which an optimal sampling region is partitioned on a solid surface using a light source without bringing the solid surface into direct contact with a ruler or a partitioning tool, and thus the solid surface can be prevented from being contaminated during the partitioning process, the accuracy of the sampling operation can be increased, the partitioning operation can be continuously performed in a simple manner so as to reduce the time of the sampling operation, and particularly the apparatus can be used many times, resulting in a reduction in the cost of the sampling operation.