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JOURNAL OF FOOD PROTECTION
Volume 73, Issue 12, Pages 2189-2196Publisher
INT ASSOC FOOD PROTECTION
DOI: 10.4315/0362-028X-73.12.2189
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- Comision Inteministerial de Ciencia y Tecnologia [AGL2009-11660]
- Gobierno de Aragon
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Inactivation and sublethal injury of Escherichia coli O157:H7 cells induced by heat in citrate phosphate buffer and apple juice (both at pH 3.8) were studied, and the effect of a combined preservation treatment using citral and heat treatments was determined. Heat resistance of E. coli O157:H7 was similar in both treatment media; after 27 min at 54 degrees C, 3 log units of the initial cell population was inactivated in both treatment media. However, under less harsh conditions a protective effect of apple juice was found. Whereas inactivation followed linear kinetics in the citrate phosphate buffer, when cells were treated in apple juice the survival curves were concave downward. Heat treatment caused a great degree of sublethal injury; 4 min at 54 degrees C inactivated less than 0.5 log CFU/ml but sublethally injured more than 3 log CFU/ml. The addition of 18 and 200 ppm of citral to the treatment medium acted synergistically with heat at 54 degrees C to inactivate 3 x 10(4) and 3 x 10(7) CFU/ml, respectively. Addition of citral thus reduced the time needed to inactivate 1 log unit of the initial E. coli O157:H7 population from 8.9 to 1.7 min. These results indicate that a combined process of heat and citral can inactivate E. coli O157:H7 cells and reduce their potential negative effects.
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