Fresh Produce Discussion Blog

Created by The Packer's National Editor Tom Karst

Sunday, July 20, 2008

New E. coli treatment?

Check out this story from Science Daily about, well, here is an excerpt:

The antimicrobial treatment involves the use of submicroscopic agents that are unable to reproduce or grow outside bacterial host cells. The purified viral agents are called bacteriophages, which means "bacteria eater," and they can wreak havoc on deadly bacteria, such as E. coli 157:H7, that sicken consumers.
The bacteriophage research is being conducted by microbiologist Manan Sharma, with the ARS Food Safety Laboratory, in Beltsville, Md., in collaboration with researchers at Intralytix, Inc., based in Baltimore, Md.



TK: Bottom line, the trials showed the treatments could be effective in killing E. coli on produce. Just don't ask me to pronounce "bacteriophages."

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