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Bacteriophage applications for fresh produce food safety
- Source :
- International journal of environmental health research. 31(6)
- Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- Foodborne illnesses, mainly bacteria, are a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Pathogenic bacteria are involved in almost every step within the fresh produce chain compromising the companies' food safety programs and generating an ascending number of foodborne outbreaks in various regions of the world. Recently, bacteriophages return to the status of biocontrol agents. These bacteria-killing viruses are able to reduce or eliminate pathogenic bacterial load from raw and ready to eat foods. Phages are efficient, strain specific, easy to isolate and manipulate, and for that reasons, they have been used in pre and post harvest processes alone or mixed with antimicrobial agents for biocontrolling pathogenic bacteria. In this review, we focused on the feasibility of using lytic bacteriophage on fresh fruits and vegetables industry, considering challenges and perspectives mainly at industrial production level (packinghouses, supermarkets), where high volume of phage preparations and consequently high costs may be required.
- Subjects :
- Food Safety
Food Handling
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
010501 environmental sciences
medicine.disease_cause
01 natural sciences
Foodborne Illnesses
Bacteriophage
Foodborne Diseases
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Vegetables
medicine
Animals
Humans
Bacteriophages
030212 general & internal medicine
Food science
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
biology
Bacteria
business.industry
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Pathogenic bacteria
General Medicine
Food safety
biology.organism_classification
Pollution
Biological Control Agents
Fruits and vegetables
Fruit
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 13691619
- Volume :
- 31
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- International journal of environmental health research
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....93369a21d0cc2d566ef7d47027473f9f