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Gas Plasma Decontamination of Fresh Foods

Reference	BBS/E/F/00041909
Principal Investigator / Supervisor	Professor Tim Brocklehurst
Co-Investigators / Co-Supervisors
Institution	Quadram Institute Bioscience
Department	Quadram Institute Bioscience Department
Funding type	Research
Value (£)	20,089
Status	Completed
Type	Institute Project
Start date	13/03/2006
End date	12/05/2007
Duration	14 months

Abstract

This project will evaluate the suitability of cold atmospheric plasmas for treating fruit and vegetable products with the following objectives: 1) to maximise plasma lethality towards food-borne pathogenic and spoilage bacteria under conditions in which they exist on foods 2) to establish through simple indicative assays whether such kills can be achieved without substantially compromising the nutritional status of the food 3) to establish a basis for scaling-up plasma decontamination processes and to make estimates of costs for a commercial treatment process.

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Committee	Closed Committee - Agri-food (AF)
Research Topics	X – not assigned to a current Research Topic
Research Priority	X – Research Priority information not available
Research Initiative	X - not in an Initiative
Funding Scheme	X – not Funded via a specific Funding Scheme

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