Recovery of Salmonella Typhimurium using a new Nissui Salmonella Food Stamp from artificial inoculated tile, stainless steel, rubber sheet, and wood was compared with the standard swab methods. The correlation coefficients between CFU of spread bacterial number and CFU by the Nissui Salmonella Food Stamp were as follows: tile; 0.91 ( n =175), stainless steel; 0.93 ( n =59), rubber sheet; 0.94 ( n =99), and wood; 0.90 ( n =63).