One of the main concerns of the food industry is microbial adhesion to food contact surfaces and consequent contamination. We evaluated the potential bacteriostatic/bactericidal ecacy of aluminum surfaces with dierent large-scale roughness (0.25, 0.5 and 1 m) before and after the surface treatment with a special anodizing based on titanium oxide nanotechnology (DURALTI®) and after 3 dierent sanitizing treatments, e.g., UV, alcohol and a natural product named Gold lotion. Four Gram-negative (Escherichia coli ATCC 25922, Salmonella typhimurium ATCC 1402, Yersinia enterocolitica ATCC 9610 and Pseudomonas aeruginosa ATCC 27588) and four Gram-positive (Staphylococcus aureus ATCC 6538, Enterococcus faecalis ATCC 29212, Bacillus cereus ATCC 14579 and Listeria monocytogenes NCTT 10888) bacteria were screened. As far as concerns aluminum surfaces without nanotechnology surface treatment, an overall bacteriostatic eect was observed for all strains with respect to the initial inoculum that was 106 CFU/mL. Conversely, an overall bactericidal eect was observed both for Gram-negative and -positive bacteria on DURALTI®-treated aluminum disks, regardless of roughness and sanitizing treatment. These results are innovative in terms of the great potential of the antibacterial activity of nanotechnologically treated food contact surfaces and their combination with some sanitizing agents that might be exploited in the food industry

Antibacterial effect of aluminum surfaces untreated and treated with a special anodizing based on titanium oxide approved for food contact / Di Cerbo, Alessandro; Mescola, Andrea; Iseppi, Ramona; Canton, Roberto; Rossi, Giacomo; Stocchi, Roberta; Rita Loschi, Anna; Alessandrini, Andrea; Rea, Stefano; Sabia, Carla. - In: BIOLOGY. - ISSN 2079-7737. - 9:12(2020), pp. 1-17. [10.3390/biology9120456]

Antibacterial effect of aluminum surfaces untreated and treated with a special anodizing based on titanium oxide approved for food contact

Ramona Iseppi
Methodology
;
Andrea Alessandrini
Methodology
;
Carla Sabia
Project Administration
2020

Abstract

One of the main concerns of the food industry is microbial adhesion to food contact surfaces and consequent contamination. We evaluated the potential bacteriostatic/bactericidal ecacy of aluminum surfaces with dierent large-scale roughness (0.25, 0.5 and 1 m) before and after the surface treatment with a special anodizing based on titanium oxide nanotechnology (DURALTI®) and after 3 dierent sanitizing treatments, e.g., UV, alcohol and a natural product named Gold lotion. Four Gram-negative (Escherichia coli ATCC 25922, Salmonella typhimurium ATCC 1402, Yersinia enterocolitica ATCC 9610 and Pseudomonas aeruginosa ATCC 27588) and four Gram-positive (Staphylococcus aureus ATCC 6538, Enterococcus faecalis ATCC 29212, Bacillus cereus ATCC 14579 and Listeria monocytogenes NCTT 10888) bacteria were screened. As far as concerns aluminum surfaces without nanotechnology surface treatment, an overall bacteriostatic eect was observed for all strains with respect to the initial inoculum that was 106 CFU/mL. Conversely, an overall bactericidal eect was observed both for Gram-negative and -positive bacteria on DURALTI®-treated aluminum disks, regardless of roughness and sanitizing treatment. These results are innovative in terms of the great potential of the antibacterial activity of nanotechnologically treated food contact surfaces and their combination with some sanitizing agents that might be exploited in the food industry
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Antibacterial effect of aluminum surfaces untreated and treated with a special anodizing based on titanium oxide approved for food contact / Di Cerbo, Alessandro; Mescola, Andrea; Iseppi, Ramona; Canton, Roberto; Rossi, Giacomo; Stocchi, Roberta; Rita Loschi, Anna; Alessandrini, Andrea; Rea, Stefano; Sabia, Carla. - In: BIOLOGY. - ISSN 2079-7737. - 9:12(2020), pp. 1-17. [10.3390/biology9120456]
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