Food Safety: Once More Into the Ozone
From Growing Produce magazine
Article by Trevor Suslow, new direcvtor of the Postharvest Technology Center at the University of California, Davis.
“We are riding another wave of keen interest in the potential for ozone-treated water (ozonation) to supplement or wholly substitute for current antimicrobials added to postharvest wash and cooling water…” Read More
From Bruce Hinkle of Food Quality & Safety Magazine, July 20, 2017
The fact is that chlorine-based chemical sterilization procedures cannot protect food products from all risks, as emerging pathogens demonstrate increasing resistance to customary concentrations of chlorine-based food safety systems. This is where Ozone disinfection plays a role.
America’s largest farm operations, food animal processors, restaurants, grocery stores, wineries, and breweries are all utilizing ozone technology in their day-to-day food safety protocols, achieving almost complete sterilization of bacterial, fungal, viral, and even prion contaminants. Aqueous ozone achieves between 99.99 percent to 99.9999 percent sterilization of food products contaminated by disease causing pathogens, essentially, on contact.
Shaken by apple recalls back East for Listeria contamination, Washington State’s large apple industry has pinned its hopes for staying pathogen free on research…
Phytopathologia Mediterranea (2015) 54, 1, 94−103
ISSN (print): 0031-9465 www.fupress.com/pm
ISSN (online): 1593-2095 © Firenze University Press
DOI: 10.14601/Phytopathol_Mediterr-14478
Thaer YASEEN1
, Alessandra RICELLI2
, Burak TURAN1
, Pietro ALBANESE1 and Anna Maria D’ONGHIA1
1 CIHEAM – Mediterranean Agronomic Institute, Via Ceglie 9, 70010 Valenzano, Bari, Italy
2 Institute of Molecular Biology and Pathology, NanoBiotecnologie-CNR, P.le Aldo Moro, 5-00185, Rome, Italy
Read how ozone infused water is used to extend shelf-life of fresh seafood at Bristol Seafood. Bristol Seafood is located in Portland, ME and is a premier provider of high quality seafood.
Article: Pressure Techniques helps Bristol Seafood with Ozone Infused Water
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