Piyush Sharmaa, Arun Prasath Venugopala,*, Parag Prakash Sutara, Hongwei Xiaob, Qi Zhangc
a Department of Food Process Engineering, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Odisha 769008, India
b College of Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, China
c School of Mechanical Engineering, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225002, China
*Corresponding author.
Abstract
Spores are the biological structures formed out of sporulation from vegetative cells in adverse conditions. Being tolerant to many extreme environment and conditions, they escape and survives critical processing steps in the food industry that poses food and health safety problems, as is evident from the increase in reports of food-borne outbreaks due to spore-formers. Electromagnetic radiation (EM) is used for rapid decontamination and sterilization purposes in the food industry. Many studies have reported a greater reduction in spore population upon irradiation with EM rays due to its impact on genomic material and other components of spores that destabilises overall structure and brings clonogenic death. However, there is scattered literature regarding the mechanism of its inactivation and resistance against such damage. This review attempts to concisely evaluate the potential of electromagnetic radiations in spore inactivation and details its mechanism through a collective study of scientific results and reports. It also briefs about the process of sporulation, the structure of spores and the role of its components in the resistance of spores to damage. Many studies, which demonstrated that combining various EM treatments might be an effective way for inactivation of spores, were discussed in detail.
SHARMA P, VENUGOPAL A P, SUTAR P P, et al. Mechanism of microbial spore inactivation through electromagnetic radiations: a review[J]. Journal of Future Foods, 2024, 4(4): 324-334.
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