Journal of Food and Nutritional DisordersISSN: 2324-9323

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Research Article, J Food Nutr Disord Vol: 6 Issue: 1

Enumeration and Identification of Ethanol-Injured Coliform Bacteria Found on Harvest Equipment and its Cross-Contamination with Cabbage

Ayano Inoue, Yuji Nakata and Hidemi Izumi*
Faculty of Biology-Oriented Science and Technology, Kindai University, 930 Nishimitani, Kinokawa, Wakayama 649-6493, Japan
Corresponding author : Hidemi Izumi PhD
Faculty of Biology-Oriented Science and Technology, Kindai University, 930 Nishimitani, Kinokawa, Wakayama 649-6493, Japan
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Received: January 27, 2017 Accepted: February 09, 2017 Published: February 15, 2017
Citation: Inoue A, Nakata Y, Izumi H (2017) Enumeration and Identification of Ethanol-Injured Coliform Bacteria Found on Harvest Equipment and it’s Cross- Contamination with Cabbage. J Food Nutr Disor 6:1. doi: 10.4172/2324-9323.1000215

Abstract

Enumeration and Identification of Ethanol-Injured Coliform Bacteria Found on Harvest Equipment and its Cross-Contamination with Cabbage

Although disinfection by sanitizers used to produce packing sheds which helps in preventing cross-contamination between farm equipment and produces, sanitizing agents like ethanol are capable of causing sanitizer-injured bacteria. Using the thin agar layer (TAL) method, the proportion of ethanol-injured coliform bacteria resulting from the use of an alcohol agent containing 1.6% and 47% ethanol was evaluated in pure cultures and in a harvest environment of cabbage, respectively. In pure cultures of Enterobacter cloacae, Escherichia coli, and E. coli O157:H7, ethanol-injured cells were observed at a range of 68-95% by treatment with an alcohol agent. When an alcohol agent was sprayed on harvest equipment including knife, container and gloves, 60% of the total coliforms detected on the knife were injured, but no injured coliforms were detected on the container and gloves. The isolation and identification of coliforms on selective and TAL media from the knife suggested that the ethanol stress caused injury to Enterobacter amnigenus, E. asburiae, and E. kobei. Injured bacteria were not detected on cabbage after harvest using the alcohol spray-treated knife because the species of bacteria found in cabbage (14 species belonging to 11 genera) were different from those on the knife. These results indicate that the sanitizer-injured coliforms would not be present on cabbage when transfer of the bacteria from harvest equipment to the cabbage is prevented or when a suitable sanitizer is used that causes death of the bacteria rather than sanitizer-induced cell injury.

Keywords: Injured bacteria; Coliforms; Alcohol agent; Ethanol; Cabbage;Harvest equipment; Transfer; Alcohol agent

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