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Emerging Technologies for Aerial Decontamination of Food Storage Environments to Eliminate Microbial Cross-Contamination
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2020-11-30
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Oliveira M, Tiwari BK, Duffy G. Emerging Technologies for Aerial Decontamination of Food Storage Environments to Eliminate Microbial Cross-Contamination. Foods 2020;9(12):1779. doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/foods9121779
Abstract
Air is recognized as an important source of microbial contamination in food production
facilities and has the potential to contaminate the food product causing food safety and spoilage
issues for the food industry. Potential for aerial microbial contamination of food can be a particular
issue during storage in cold rooms when the food is not packaged and is exposed to contaminated
air over a prolonged period. Thus, there are potential benefits for the food industry for an aerial
decontamination in cold storage facilities. In this paper, aerial decontamination approaches are
reviewed and challenges encountered for their applications are discussed. It is considered that
current systems may not be completely e ective and environmentally friendly, therefore, it is of great
significance to consider the development of nonresidual and verified decontamination technologies
for the food industry and, in particular, for the cold storage rooms.