The effects of antimicrobial food additives on growth and ochratoxin A production by Aspergillus sulphureus NRRL 4077 and Penicillium viridicatum NRRL 3711 were investigated. At pH 4.5, growth and toxin production by both A. sulphureus and P. viridicatum were completely inhibited by 0.02% potassium sorbate, 0.067% methyl paraben, 0.0667% methyl paraben, and 0.2% sodium propionate. At pH 5.5, 0....

Antimicrobial packaging is an important form of active packaging that can release antimicrobial substances for enhancing the quality and safety of food during extended storage. It is in response to consumers demand for preservative-free food as well as more natural, disposable, biodegradable, and recyclable food-packaging materials. The potential of a combination of allyl isothiocyanate and pot...

Salmonella typhimurium and S. enteritidis were inoculated into blended oysters, both raw and autoclaved. The oysters were also treated with sodium benzoate (0.1%) or potassium sorbate (0.1%), and irradiated (0.1 Mrad). In both non-irradiated and irradiated samples, greater numbers of Salmonella were recovered after storage at 7 C in the presence of sodium benzoate or potassium sorbate. The resu...

The growth-promoting effects of two dietary acidifiers based on formic acid were studied with 320 fattening pigs from ca 2 kg to ca 05 kg of body weight. The sorbate-coated formic acid contained formic acid and ammonium formate which were absorbed in diatomaceous earth and coated with potassium sorbate. The investigated liquid blend contained formic and lactic acids as the major components. The...

An in vitro gas production technique was used to screen different organic acids (formic, propionic, lactic, citric, and fumaric acid), organic salts (calcium formate, potassium sorbate, and sodium benzoate), and inorganic phosphoric acid for their ability to modulate microbial fermentation in the digestive tract of piglets. For the incubation, 40 ml of culture medium (53% buffer, 45% frozen ile...

Understanding how sorption depends on temperature a molecular basis has been made difficult by the coexistence of isotherm models, each assuming different mechanism and routine application planar, multilayer models (such as Brunauer–Emmett–Teller (BET) Guggenheim–Anderson–de Boer (GAB)) beyond their premises. Furthermore, common observation that adsorption isotherms measured at temperatures fal...

In the title salt, C(6)H(9)N(2) (+)·C(6)H(7)O(2) (-)·2H(2)O, the non-H atoms of the 2-amino-4-methyl-pyridinium cation are coplanar, with a maximum deviation of 0.010 (1) Å. In the crystal structure, the pyridinium N atom and the 2-amino group of the cation are hydrogen bonded to the carboxyl-ate O atoms of the anion via a pair of N-H⋯O hydrogen bonds, forming an R(2) (2)(8) ring motif. The sor...

There are various methods for the analysis of Potassium Sorbate and Sodium Benzoate in food products, but a rapid and reliable method for identification of these preservatives in Doogh (an Iranian traditional dairy drink) is a procedure, in which high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) utilized and followed by UV diode array detection of the two preservatives. The aim of this case study w...

A direct comparison of quasielastic neutron scattering experimental measurements and molecular dynamics computer simulations is carried out for the first time for hydrogen and deuterium confined in the nanostructure of faujasite type zeolites at a temperature of 100 K, in order to investigate the dependence of sorption thermodynamics and sorbate dynamics on the sorbed phase concentration. The c...