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    Food Plant Safety: UV Applications for Food and Non-Food Surfaces
    Food Plant Safety: UV Applications for Food and Non-Food Surfaces
    Food Plant Safety: UV Applications for Food and Non-Food Surfaces
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    Food Plant Safety: UV Applications for Food and Non-Food Surfaces

    By Tatiana Koutchma

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    Food Plant Safety: UV Applications for Food and Non-Food Surfaces discusses the fundamental principles of ultraviolet (UV) light technology, and gives practical recommendations on UV processes and systems design for specific processing operations, as well as how microbial efficacy of UV light can improve the quality of existing product lines.

    Innovative research of ultraviolet light for food applications has been growing worldwide. With increased consumer demand for fresher, minimally processed but safe foods, comes the need for novel technologies to meet that demand. Ultraviolet technology has been taking its niche in food production as a non-chemical treatment to control and enhance safety of processing plants and storage facilities.

    This concise resource covers the fundamentals of this promising technology and its applications; it will benefit a broad audience of professionals in food engineering, processing, and product development, as well as graduate level students.

    • Focuses on plant processing operations in the food industry
    • Presents the benefits of UV light technology applications for air quality, and safety of non-food and food contact surfaces
    • Covers the cost benefits and energy and environmental advantages of using UV technologies
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAcademic Press
    Release dateMar 11, 2014
    ISBN9780124166677
    Food Plant Safety: UV Applications for Food and Non-Food Surfaces
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    Tatiana Koutchma

    Dr. Tatiana Koutchma is a Research Scientist at the Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Guelph Research and Development Centre and a member of the Graduate Faculty at the University of Guelph. Tatiana’s research focuses on the application of novel processing technologies to enhance microbial safety, quality and functionality of foods and feed, addresses issues of chemical safety including regulatory approvals, validation and technology transfer. Dr. Koutchma initiates, directs and performs integrated fundamental and applied research, interacts extensively with international government agencies, and collaborates with industry and academia partners. She is an Associate Editor of several international journals, and a co-founder and chair of UV for Food Working Group of International UV Association (IUVA). As well as delivering training for industry and government professionals, she has authored and co-authored 6 books, 14 book chapters, and more than 100 publications in peer reviewed and trade journals.

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      Food Plant Safety - Tatiana Koutchma

      Chapter 1

      Introduction

      Ultraviolet (UV) light is an economical, nonthermal, and nonchemical intervention toward improved hygiene control measures in the food industry. Sanitation, decontamination, disinfection, and oxidation with UV light is a versatile, environmental-friendly process, which can be easily adapted in the food production and storage facilities to reduce their microbial contamination and consequently to improve safety of finished products. This book is aimed to review basic principles and benefits of continuous UV and pulsed light (PL), available UV and PL sources, their performance characteristics, and commercial systems that can be installed in food facilities to improve microbial quality of the final products. The examples of current and prospective applications of UV light and PL for air purification, water disinfection and treatments of nonfood contact and food contact surfaces, fresh and fresh-cut produce, raw and ready-to-eat meats, seafood, and eggs will be reviewed along with the available units. This book will provide perspective for food manufacturers on utilizing of UV light benefits in their production and storage facilities.

      Keywords

      Ultraviolet light; ultraviolet commercial systems; food plant safety; air purification; surface disinfection; UV microbial inactivation

      During manufacturing process, ingredients, raw materials, semifinished and finished products can be exposed to microbiological cross-contamination from the air, water, and surfaces in food and storage facilities. The traditional approach to controlling such contamination has been to target specific sites within the manufacturing environment with cleaning and disinfection regimes. Ultraviolet (UV) light is an economical intervention toward improved hygiene control measures in the food industry. Sanitation, decontamination, disinfection, and oxidation with UV light is a versatile, environmental-friendly technology, which can be used in the food production and storage facilities to reduce microbial contamination and consequently to improve safety of finished products. UV light has been historically used for purification of air, disinfection of water and wastewater. In the last decades among other novel techniques, UV technology started to emerge in food processing practices because of its broad antimicrobial action, low cost, and nonthermal, purely physical nature. Despite UV light being known for its surface character, the main interest was focused at the application of UV light as an alternative means of food preservation of food fluids with a broad range of UV light transmission (UVT). There is limited research and commercial practices to use UV as an additional step or/and as a processing aid to disinfect nonfood contact and food contact surfaces to reduce risk of contamination and cross-contamination. This book is aimed to review benefits of continuous UV light and pulsed light for the applications to improve safety at the food plants and provide perspective to food processors on applications of those benefits for their production facilities. The current and perspective applications of UV light for air purification, water disinfection, and surface treatments in food processing and storage facilities will be reviewed among with available UV sources and commercial

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