date:May 23, 2012
The study from the Agricultural Research Service, part of Department of Agriculture, proposed using the technologies in combination because only when used together did they provided an effective hurdle process for decontamination.
Employing each method individually did inhibit LM development for relatively short periods of time after which the bacterium were able to bounce back and resume growth, said ARS researchers Christopher Sommers et al.
The paper - Inactivation of Listeria innocua on