Inactivation of Salmonella enterica on post-harvest cantaloupe and lettuce by a lytic bacteriophage cocktail

Autor: Catherine W.Y. Wong, Pascal Delaquis, Lawrence Goodridge, Roger C. Lévesque, Karen Fong, Siyun Wang
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Current Research in Food Science, Vol 2, Iss , Pp 25-32 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2665-9271
DOI: 10.1016/j.crfs.2019.11.004
Popis: Salmonella enterica (S. enterica) is a causative agent of multiple outbreaks of foodborne illness associated with fresh produce, including pre-cut melon and leafy vegetables. Current industrial antimicrobial interventions have been shown to reduce microbial populations by 3 log CFU/g and S. Newport S2 by 1 log CFU/g on both lettuce and cantaloupe tissues at all sampling times. In contrast, populations of strains S. Thompson S193 and S194 were reduced by 2 log CFU/g on day 0 on lettuce, but were not significantly different (P > 0.05) from the controls thereafter, S. Newport S195 populations were reduced on lettuce by 1 log CFU/g on day 0 and no reductions were found on cantaloupe tissue. Both aerobic populations and water activity were higher on cantaloupe than on lettuce. The water activity of lettuce decreased significantly (P
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