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Food Safety
High-pressure treatment increases inactivation of bacterial toxins
October 23rd, 2005
High-pressure treatment increases the inactivation of bacterial toxins. "Even though the inactivation of microorganisms by high pressure treatment is a subject of intense investigations, the effect of high pressure on bacterial toxins has not been studied so far. "In this study, the influence of combined pressure/temperature treatment (0.1 to 800 MPa and 5 to 121 degrees C) on bacterial enterotoxins was determined," scientists in Germany report. "Therefore," wrote D. Margosch and colleagues at the Technical University of Munich, "heat-stable enterotoxin (STa) of cholera toxin (CT) from Vibrio cholerae, staphylococcal...
Source: Medical Letter on the CDC & FDA (2005-10-23)
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