Efficacy of plant-derived antimicrobials for controlling Salmonella Schwarzengrund on dry pet food
| Autor: | Stephanie R.B. Brown, Kumar Venkitanarayanan, Chi-Hung Chen, Abhinav Upadhayay, Hsin-Bai Yin |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Salmonella
Biology medicine.disease_cause Microbiology Disease Outbreaks 03 medical and health sciences chemistry.chemical_compound Generally recognized as safe Eugenol medicine Animals Humans Plant Oils Carvacrol Food science Acrolein Thymol 030304 developmental biology 0303 health sciences Chitosan 030306 microbiology Salmonella enterica General Medicine Pets Antimicrobial biology.organism_classification Animal Feed Anti-Bacterial Agents Vegetable oil chemistry Salmonella Infections Food Microbiology Monoterpenes Cymenes Salmonella Food Poisoning Soybeans Food Science |
| Zdroj: | International journal of food microbiology. 296 |
| ISSN: | 1879-3460 |
| Popis: | Salmonella enterica is a major human pathogen that is responsible for 23,000 hospitalizations annually in the United States. Contact with contaminated pet food and infected companion animals can transmit salmonellosis to humans. Recent multistate human outbreaks of salmonellosis linked to commercial contaminated dry dog foods underscore the need for controlling the pathogen in pet foods for protecting pet and public health. In this study, the efficacy of five Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS) status, plant-derived antimicrobials (PDAs), namely trans-cinnamaldehyde (TC), carvacrol (CR), thymol (TY), eugenol (EG), and caprylic acid (CA) applied as a vegetable oil or chitosan based antimicrobial spray on dry pet food for reducing Salmonella Schwarzengrund was investigated. Three hundred gram portions of a commercial dry dog food were inoculated with a two-strain mixture of nalidixic acid (NA) resistant S. Schwarzengrund (~6 log CFU/g), followed by a spray treatment with 0%, 0.5%, 1% or 2% of TC, CR, TY, EG or CA in combination with 5% vegetable oil or 1% chitosan as a carrier. The control and treated dog food samples were stored at 25 °C for 28 days. On days 0, 1, 3, 5, 7, 14, 21, and 28, Salmonella on pet food was enumerated by serial dilution and plating on xylose lysine desoxycholate (XLD) agar. All PDAs at 1% and 2% applied in vegetable oil or chitosan reduced S. Schwarzengrund by at least ~2 log CFU/g on day 3 of storage when compared to control (P 0.05). No significant reductions in Salmonella were observed on feed sprayed with only vegetable oil or chitosan (P 0.05). Overall, 2% TC in vegetable oil or chitosan was the most effective treatment, where at least 3 to 3.5 log CFU/g reduction in bacterial populations was observed during storage (P 0.05). Results suggest that the aforementioned PDAs could potentially be used as an antimicrobial spray to reduce S. Schwarzengrund on dry dog food. However, further studies on the acceptance of PDA-treated dry food by dogs are needed. |
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