Pulsed Electric Fields - An Alternative To Thermal Pasteurization In Milk For Low-Income Countries
Tuesday, March 24, 2015 - 12:40
in Health & Medicine
Milk has a long been a nutritional and economic staple in western countries but it is quickly susceptible to pathogens quite easily, which is why pasteurization, which kills harmful microbes, is the norm for all but the food fad fringes. Due to harmful microbes, raw milk is 150X as likely as pasteurized milk to result in illness.Refrigeration and chemicals can manage pathogen growth but Listeria monocytogenes are less sensitive to low temperature; therefore, they can proliferate at refrigeration during transportation and storage. And not everyone has access to the infrastructure needed for a permanent electricity supply needed to drive refrigeration.Perhaps if electricity were just needed in bursts. read more