Quantifying the reduction in potential health risks by determining the sensitivity of poliovirus type 1 chat strain and rotavirus SA-11 to electron beam irradiation of iceberg lettuce and spinach

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 988-993

  Espinosa, Ana Cecilia ^a   Jesudhasan, Palmy ^b   Arredondo, René ^a   Cepeda, Martha ^b   Mazari Hiriart, Marisa ^a   Mena, Kristi D ^c   Pillai, Suresh D ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

E-BEAM IRRADIATION; ELECTRON BEAM IRRADIATION; ENTERIC VIRUS; FOOD-BORNE ILLNESS; FRESH PRODUCE; FRESH-CUT LETTUCE; GOOD AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES; HIGH ENERGY ELECTRON BEAMS; ICEBERG LETTUCE; IONIZING IRRADIATION; POLIOVIRUS; POTENTIAL HEALTH; PUBLIC HEALTH RISKS; ROTAVIRUSES; STANDARD ERRORS;

CONTAMINATION; ELECTRON BEAMS; IRRADIATION; RISK PERCEPTION; SEA ICE; VIRUSES;

RADIATION;

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; DISEASE CONTROL; HEALTH RISK; INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT; IONIZATION; IRRADIATION; LEAFY VEGETABLE; PATHOGENICITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; ELECTRON; FOOD POISONING; LETTUCE; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLIOMYELITIS VIRUS; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROTAVIRUS; SPINACH; VIROLOGY; VIRUS INACTIVATION;

ELECTRONS; FOODBORNE DISEASES; LETTUCE; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; POLIOVIRUS; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROTAVIRUS; SPINACIA OLERACEA; VIRUS INACTIVATION;

HUMAN POLIOVIRUS 1; LACTUCA; POLIOVIRUS; ROTAVIRUS; SPINACIA OLERACEA;

EID: 84857098153     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.06927-11     Document Type: Article

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