A review on microbiological decontamination of fresh produce with nonthermal plasma
| Autor: | E. Fea, Domenico D'Angelo, Giorgio Gilli, Cristina Pignata |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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0301 basic medicine
Food Safety Food industry Plasma Gases Fresh produce 030106 microbiology Food Contamination Nonthermal plasma Biology Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology Foodborne Diseases 03 medical and health sciences 0404 agricultural biotechnology Decontamination Foodborne outbreak Pathogenic micro-organism Biotechnology media_common.cataloged_instance Animals Food-Processing Industry European union media_common Waste management business.industry Animal production Industrial setting 04 agricultural and veterinary sciences General Medicine Human decontamination Food safety 040401 food science United States Food Microbiology Public Health business |
| Popis: | Summary Food safety is a critical public health issue for consumers and the food industry because microbiological contamination of food causes considerable social and economic burdens on health care. Most foodborne illness comes from animal production, but as of the mid-1990s in the United States and more recently in the European Union, the contribution of fresh produce to foodborne outbreaks has rapidly increased. Recent studies have suggested that sterilization with nonthermal plasma could be a viable alternative to the traditional methods for the decontamination of heat-sensitive materials or food because this technique proves capable of eliminating micro-organisms on surfaces without altering the substrate. In the last 10 years, researchers have used nonthermal plasma in a variety of food inoculated with many bacterial species. All of these experiments were conducted exclusively in a laboratory and, to our knowledge, this technique has not been used in an industrial setting. Thus, the purpose of this review is to understand whether this technology could be used at the industrial level. The latest researches using nonthermal plasma on fresh produce were analysed. These evaluations have focused on the log reduction of micro-organisms and the treatment time. |
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