1. Inactivation of Salmonella Typhimurium and Listeria monocytogenes on ham with nonthermal atmospheric pressure plasma
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Lis, Karolina Anna, Boulaaba, Annika, Binder, Sylvia, Li, Yangfang, Kehrenberg, Corinna, Zimmermann, Julia Louise, Klein, Günter, and Ahlfeld, Birte
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Bacterial Diseases ,Salmonella typhimurium ,Atmospheric Science ,Plasma Gases ,Cell Membranes ,lcsh:Medicine ,Pathology and Laboratory Medicine ,Salmonella ,Animal Products ,Specimen Storage ,Medicine and Health Sciences ,lcsh:Science ,Agriculture ,Bacterial Pathogens ,Cold Temperature ,Meat Products ,Chemistry ,Infectious Diseases ,Atmospheric Pressure ,Medical Microbiology ,Physical Sciences ,Pathogens ,Cellular Structures and Organelles ,Research Article ,Meat ,Nitrogen ,Surface Properties ,Research and Analysis Methods ,Microbiology ,Greenhouse Gases ,Ozone ,Enterobacteriaceae ,Food Preservation ,Environmental Chemistry ,Microbial Pathogens ,Gram Negative Bacteria ,Nutrition ,Microbial Viability ,Bacteria ,lcsh:R ,Ecology and Environmental Sciences ,Organisms ,Biology and Life Sciences ,Bacteriology ,Humidity ,Cell Biology ,Listeria Monocytogenes ,Ham ,Diet ,Food ,Atmospheric Chemistry ,Storage and Handling ,Earth Sciences ,lcsh:Q ,Reactive Oxygen Species - Abstract
The application of cold atmospheric pressure plasma (CAP) for decontamination of sliced ready-to-eat (RTE) meat products (in this case, rolled fillets of ham), inoculated with Salmonella (S.) Typhimurium and Listeria (L.) monocytogenes was investigated. Cold atmospheric plasma (CAP) is an ionised gas that includes highly reactive species and ozone, interacting with cell membranes and DNA of bacteria. The mode of action of CAPs includes penetration and disruption of the outer cell membrane or intracellular destruction of DNA located in the cytoplasm. Inoculated ham was treated for 10 and 20 min with CAP generated by a surface-micro-discharge-plasma source using cost-effective ambient air as working gas with different humidity levels of 45-50 and 90%. The chosen plasma modes had a peak-to-peak voltage of 6.4 or 10 kV and a frequency of 2 and 10 kHz. Under the tested conditions, the direct effectiveness of CAP on microbial inactivation was limited. Although all treated samples showed significant reductions in the microbial load subsequent to plasma treatment, the maximum inactivation of S. Typhimurium was 1.14 lg steps after 20 min of CAP-treatment (p
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- 2018