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Modeling the growth of Listeria monocytogenes on the surface of smear- or mold-ripened cheese.
Schvartzman Echenique, Maria Sol; Gonzalez-Barron, Ursula; Butler, Francis et al.
2014In Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 4, p. 90
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Keywords :
Baranyi and Roberts; Gompertz; Listeria monocytogenes; Presser; growth; mathematical modeling
Abstract :
[en] Surface-ripened cheeses are matured by means of manual or mechanical technologies posing a risk of cross-contamination, if any cheeses are contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. In predictive microbiology, primary models are used to describe microbial responses, such as growth rate over time and secondary models explain how those responses change with environmental factors. In this way, primary models were used to assess the growth rate of L. monocytogenes during ripening of the cheeses and the secondary models to test how much the growth rate was affected by either the pH and/or the water activity (aw) of the cheeses. The two models combined can be used to predict outcomes. The purpose of these experiments was to test three primary (the modified Gompertz equation, the Baranyi and Roberts model, and the Logistic model) and three secondary (the Cardinal model, the Ratowski model, and the Presser model) mathematical models in order to define which combination of models would best predict the growth of L. monocytogenes on the surface of artificially contaminated surface-ripened cheeses. Growth on the surface of the cheese was assessed and modeled. The primary models were firstly fitted to the data and the effects of pH and aw on the growth rate (mumax) were incorporated and assessed one by one with the secondary models. The Logistic primary model by itself did not show a better fit of the data among the other primary models tested, but the inclusion of the Cardinal secondary model improved the final fit. The aw was not related to the growth of Listeria. This study suggests that surface-ripened cheese should be separately regulated within EU microbiological food legislation and results expressed as counts per surface area rather than per gram.
Disciplines :
Food science
Author, co-author :
Schvartzman Echenique, Maria Sol ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences de la vie > Génomique fonctionnelle et imagerie moléculaire végétale
Gonzalez-Barron, Ursula
Butler, Francis
Jordan, Kieran
Language :
English
Title :
Modeling the growth of Listeria monocytogenes on the surface of smear- or mold-ripened cheese.
Publication date :
July 2014
Journal title :
Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
eISSN :
2235-2988
Publisher :
Frontiers Media SA
Volume :
4
Pages :
90
Peer reviewed :
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