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  • Titel: Drastic Microbial Count Reduction in Soy Milk Using Continuous Short-Wave Ultraviolet Treatments in a Tubular Annular Thin Film UV-C Reactor
  • Beteiligte: Martínez-García, María; Sauceda-Gálvez, Jezer N.; Codina-Torrella, Idoia; Hernández-Herrero, María Manuela; Gervilla, Ramón; Roig-Sagués, Artur X.
  • Erschienen: MDPI AG, 2023
  • Erschienen in: Foods, 12 (2023) 20, Seite 3813
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.3390/foods12203813
  • ISSN: 2304-8158
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  • Beschreibung: Vegetative cells of Listeria monocytogenes and Escherichia coli and spores of Bacillus subtilis and Aspergillus niger were inoculated in soy milk at an initial concentration of ≈5 log CFU/mL. Inoculated and control (non-inoculated) soy milk samples were submitted to three types of treatments using a tubular annular thin film short-wave ultraviolet (UV-C) reactor with 1 mm of layer thickness. Treatments applied depended on the flow rate and the number of entries to the reactor, with UV-C doses ranging from 20 to 160 J/mL. The number of entries into the reactor tube (NET) was established as the most determining parameter for the efficiency of the UV-C treatments. Conidiospores of A. niger were reported as the most resistant, followed by B. subtilis spores, while vegetative cells were the most sensible to UV-C, with Listeria monocytogenes being more sensible than Escherichia coli. Treatments of just 80 J/mL were needed to achieve a 5 log CFU/mL reduction of L. monocytogenes while 160 J/mL was necessary to achieve a similar reduction for A. niger spores.
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