Efficacy of Ozone Against Escherichia coli O157:H7 on Apples

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Apples were inoculated with Escherichia coli O157:H7 and treated with ozone. Sanitization treatments were more effective when ozone was bubbled during apple washing than by dipping apples in pre‐ozonated water. The corresponding decreases in counts of E. coli O157:H7 during 3‐min treatments were 3.7 and 2.6 log 10 CFU on apple surface, respectively, compared to < 1 log 10 CFU decrease in the stem‐calyx region in both delivery methods. Optimum conditions for decontamination of whole apples with ozone included a pretreatment with a wetting agent, followed by bubbling ozone for 3 min in the wash water, which decreased the count of E. coli O157:H7 by 3.3 log 10 CFU/g.

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