Cross-contamination of ready-to-eat (RTE) foods with pathogens on contaminated tableware and food preparation utensils is an important factor associated with foodborne illnesses. To prevent this, restaurants and food service establishments are required to achieve a minimum microbial reduction of 5 logs from these surfaces. This study evaluated the sanitization efficacies of ware-washing protoco...

Privacy-preserving releasing of complex data (e.g., image, text, audio) represents a long-standing challenge for the data mining research community. Due to rich semantics of the data and lack of a priori knowledge about the analysis task, excessive sanitization is often necessary to ensure privacy, leading to significant loss of the data utility. In this paper, we present dp-GAN, a general priv...

WITH THE ADVENT of targeted advertising and the popularity of data mining, users find their privacy threatened. To address this rising concern, researchers have proposed many privacypreserving mechanisms.1 Most of these mechanisms have strong theoretical guarantees but often lack practicality. For instance, reaching a sufficient level of privacy often requires sanitizing (distorting) user data ...

Effective sanitization is important in viral epizootic outbreaks to avoid further spread of the pathogen. This study examined thermal inactivation as a sanitizing treatment for manure inoculated with highly pathogenic avian influenza virus H7N1 and bacteriophages MS2 and 6. Rapid inactivation of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus H7N1 was achieved at both mesophilic (35°C) and thermophilic...

The transmission of Escherichia coli O157:H7 from manure-contaminated soil and irrigation water to lettuce plants was demonstrated using laser scanning confocal microscopy, epifluorescence microscopy, and recovery of viable cells from the inner tissues of plants. E. coli O157:H7 migrated to internal locations in plant tissue and was thus protected from the action of sanitizing agents by virtue ...

The killing of bacterial cells by chemical agents may be considered as the resultant of a reaction between two systems, the cells and their suspending medium and the germicide and its solvent. The method for testing sanitizing agents proposed by Weber and Black (1948) allows evaluation, on the basis of the two systems, of factors such as ions present in the suspending or diluting medium, organi...

The demand for fresh salad vegetables, such as iceberg lettuce, has increased worldwide in recent years. Numerous sanitizers have been examined for their effectiveness in killing or removing pathogenic bacteria on fresh produce. However, most of the sanitizers are made from the dilution of condensed solutions which involves some risk in handling and is troublesome. A sanitizer that is not produ...

As the number of provenance aware organizations increases, particularly in workflow scientific domains, sharing provenance data becomes a necessity. Meanwhile, scientists wish to share their scientific results without sacrificing privacy, neither directly through illegal authorizations nor indirectly through illegal inferences. Nevertheless, current work in workflow provenance sanitizing approa...