Development of a Sanitizing Fabric Wipe for Use on Food Contact Surfaces

A sanitizer was incorporated into disposable sanitary wipes that were used to eliminate microorganisms on plastic and metal surfaces. These surfaces were inoculated with strains of Bacillus subtilis OSU 494, Enterococcus faecalis OSU 48, Escherichia coli ATCC 29181, Listeria innocua ATCC 33090, Pseu...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Journal of food science 2007-11, Vol.72 (9), p.M375-M381
Main Authors: Lee, J, Lopes, J.A, Pascall, M.A
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
animal pathogenic bacteria
animal pathogenic fungi
Aspergillus fumigatus
Bacillus subtilis
Bacteria
Bacteria - drug effects
Biological and medical sciences
Candida albicans
cleaning equipment
Colony Count, Microbial
Comparative analysis
Disinfectants - pharmacology
disposable wipes
Enterococcus faecalis
Environmental Microbiology
Equipment Contamination - prevention & control
Escherichia coli
Fabrics
food contact surfaces
Food Contamination - prevention & control
Food industries
Food Microbiology
food pathogens
food-grade sanitizer
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
fungal spores
Listeria innocua
Metals
microbial contamination
Microbial Viability - drug effects
mortality
Plastics
plate count
Polyesters
pore size
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Salmonella enteritidis
sanitizers
sanitizing
sanitizing wipes
Staphylococcus epidermidis
thickness
Time Factors
viability
yeasts
Citations: Items that this one cites
Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:A sanitizer was incorporated into disposable sanitary wipes that were used to eliminate microorganisms on plastic and metal surfaces. These surfaces were inoculated with strains of Bacillus subtilis OSU 494, Enterococcus faecalis OSU 48, Escherichia coli ATCC 29181, Listeria innocua ATCC 33090, Pseudomonas aeruginosa OSU 167, Salmonella enteritidis OSU 799, Staphylococcus epidermidis OSU 838), Candida albicans ATCC 10231, and Aspergillus fumigatus ATCC 10894. These inoculated surfaces were cleaned with the wipes for 5, 10, and 30 s, then organisms surviving on the cleaned surfaces and in the wipes were enumerated. Applying the sanitizing wipe to the plastic and metal surfaces reduced the viability of bacteria (> log 4 for 5 s), yeast cells (> log 5 for 10 s), and fungal spores (< log 4 for all times). The use of large pore sized or thick wipes showed better sanitizing result when compared with the use of the small pore sized and slim wipe. There were no significant differences (P > 0.05) between surviving numbers on the surface of the plastic compared with that of the metal.
ISSN:0022-1147
1750-3841
DOI:10.1111/j.1750-3841.2007.00558.x