TMC Total microbial count

German translation: Gesamtkeimzahl/Gesamtmikrobenzahl (GKZ)

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English term or phrase:TMC Total microbial count
German translation:Gesamtkeimzahl/Gesamtmikrobenzahl (GKZ)
Entered by: Caroline Miranda Feetam

08:00 Jan 20, 2013
English to German translations [PRO]
Science - Food & Drink / Back of food packet
English term or phrase: TMC Total microbial count
Back of a food packet, along with a long list of nutritional information
I'd like to know if TMC (Total microbial count) has a specific German translation or whether they use the English Acronym TMC.
Caroline Miranda Feetam
Italy
Local time: 10:01
Gesamtkeimzahl/Gesamtmikrobenzahl
Explanation:
Ich muss allerdings sagen, dass ich es noch nie auf einer Verpackung gelesen habe. Gesamtkeimzahl ist aber die richtige Übersetzung für "total microbial count".
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Margarita Sevcuk
Germany
Local time: 10:01
Grading comment
Thanks so much
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Summary of answers provided
3 +8Gesamtkeimzahl/Gesamtmikrobenzahl
Margarita Sevcuk
3Gesamtbakterienzahl
Cristina Bufi Poecksteiner, M.A.


  

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10 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
TMC = total microbial count
Gesamtbakterienzahl


Explanation:
ULB Bonn ::: Dissertation - ..
http://hss.ulb.uni-bonn.de/2006/0772/0772.htm
... Treponema denticola, Tannerella forsythia sowie der Gesamtbakterienzahl.
... In this study higher total bacterial counts could be harvested by use of curettes ...

Physico-Chemical and Bacteriological Parameters in a ...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0232439311802155
Total microscopic and viable counts were compared, and, together with faecal ... Dabei wurde die Gesamtbakterienzahl nach mikroskopischer Zählung und .... ( Sartorius) at 44.5 °c (A. P. H. A. 1985). b) Total microscopic counts (TMC). .... Microbial counts obtained in this study are represented in Figure 2.

Cristina Bufi Poecksteiner, M.A.
Austria
Local time: 10:01
Native speaker of: Italian
PRO pts in category: 8
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12 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +8
tmc total microbial count
Gesamtkeimzahl/Gesamtmikrobenzahl


Explanation:
Ich muss allerdings sagen, dass ich es noch nie auf einer Verpackung gelesen habe. Gesamtkeimzahl ist aber die richtige Übersetzung für "total microbial count".

Margarita Sevcuk
Germany
Local time: 10:01
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Thanks so much

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Siegfried Armbruster: genau, Gesamtkeimzahl (GKZ) ist die offizielle Bezeichnung
5 mins
  -> Danke!

agree  BrigitteHilgner
2 hrs
  -> Danke!

agree  Edith Kelly: Gesamtkeimzahl
2 hrs
  -> Danke!

agree  Steffen Walter
2 hrs
  -> Danke!

agree  Cetacea: Gesamtkeimzahl.
3 hrs
  -> Danke!

agree  Coqueiro: Gesamtkeimzahl
3 hrs
  -> Danke!

agree  Marie Jammers
5 hrs
  -> Danke!

agree  Harald Moelzer (medical-translator): Gesamtkeimzahl
22 hrs
  -> Danke!
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