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Title: | Bio-sanitation treatment using essential oils against E. coli O157:H7 on fresh lettuce | Authors: | Mouatcho, Joel Claude Tzortzakis, Nikos G. Soundy, Puffy Sivakumar, Dharini |
Major Field of Science: | Agricultural Sciences | Field Category: | Biological Sciences;Other Natural Sciences;AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES;Agricultural Biotechnology;Other Agricultural Sciences | Keywords: | Antioxidant scavenging activity;essential oil;food borne pathogen;leafy vegetable;total phenols | Issue Date: | 3-Jul-2017 | Source: | New Zealand Journal of Crop and Horticultural Science, 2017, vol. 45, no. 3, pp. 165-174 | Volume: | 45 | Issue: | 3 | Start page: | 165 | End page: | 174 | Journal: | New Zealand Journal of Crop and Horticultural Science | Abstract: | The study was undertaken to develop an effective bio-sanitation treatment using essential oils for the highly perishable leafy vegetable lettuce. The combination of thyme oil and tea tree oil mixed together had a significantly higher total phenolic content as well as higher antioxidant scavenging activity than other single oils or oil mixtures. Lettuce inoculated with Escherichia coli O157:H7 showed significantly reduced population counts in the presence of the sanitation treatment of a combination of thyme + tea tree oil applied by dipping at 0.75% + 0.75% or 1.5% + 1.5% concentrations compared to commercial sodium hypochlorite (200 mg/L NaOCl) washing after 5 days shelf life at 10°C. These results indicate that thyme + tea tree oil dipping treatment could be used to control E. coli O157:H7 contamination in lettuce as an alternative to NaOCl. | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14279/14815 | ISSN: | 01140671 | DOI: | 10.1080/01140671.2016.1269813 | Rights: | © Taylor & Francis | Type: | Article | Affiliation : | Tshwane University of Technology Cyprus University of Technology |
Publication Type: | Peer Reviewed |
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