Decontamination of Foods by Cold Plasma

Emerging Technologies for Food Processing

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 327-333

  Niemira, Brendan A ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cold plasma; Escherichia. coli O157:H7; Food safety; Nonthermal processing; Salmonella; STEC

Indexed keywords

EID: 85130675557     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-411479-1.00018-8     Document Type: Chapter

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