Nonthermal killing effect of microwave irradiation

✍ Scribed by Seigo Sato; Chokichiro Shibata; Minoru Yazu

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 327 KB
• Volume: 10
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0951-208X
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00158936

✦ Synopsis

Suspensions of E.coli were exposed to microwave irradiation at constant temperatures. No cell death was observed at 35"c, whereas, at 45,47,and SOT, -the death rates of E.coli exposed to microwave irradiation were higher than those ob.tained in conventional heat sterilization at the same temperatures.