date:Nov 27, 2013
Certain garlic-derived compounds have been shown to significantly reduce the contamination risk of foodborne pathogen Cronobacter sakazakii in production of dry infant formula powder, according to a new study published in the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology.
Researchers at the University of British Columbia used high-throughput RNA sequencing and confocal-microscopic lasers to systematically determine the antimicrobial mechanism of garlic compounds on the pathogen. C. sakazakii i