Saturday, November 19, 2016

Bagged Salads May Be Fertile Ground for Bacteria

By Robert Preidt

HealthDay Reporter

FRIDAY, Nov. 18, 2016 (HealthDay Information) -- Prepackaged salads could promote the expansion of salmonella micro organism, researchers report.

They discovered that even slight harm to leaves in salad baggage launched juices that inspired the unfold of salmonella.

These salad juices additionally boosted the micro organism's capacity to type biofilms, which cling tightly to the surfaces they coat. This makes it onerous to clean the micro organism off the produce, the researchers stated.

Most salad leaf crops are first uncovered to salmonella within the subject, from sources comparable to bugs, chook droppings and manure, defined research co-author Primrose Freestone, an affiliate professor of medical microbiology on the College of Leicester in England.

She famous that prepackaged salads are widespread in grocery shops, and are additionally served in quick meals and airline meals, however few research had examined how salmonella behaves in these merchandise.

Her workforce's research was printed Nov. 18 within the journal Utilized and Environmental Microbiology.

"We wished to analyze what occurs to salmonella in a bag of salad to higher perceive the potential dangers to customers and inform future analysis on lowering attachment of this pathogen to salad leaves," Freestone stated in a journal information launch.

"This research is a part of our ongoing analysis into methods to cut back the danger of salmonella persisting and rising when it's current in bagged salad," she stated.

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SOURCE: Utilized and Environmental Microbiology, information launch, Nov. 18, 2016

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