Protective cultures, antimicrobial metabolites and bacteriophages for food and beverage biopreservation

• Other Authors: Lacroix, Christophe
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford : Woodhead Publishing, c2011.
• Series: Woodhead Publishing in food science, technology, and nutrition ; no. 201.
• Subjects: Food > Preservation.; Food industry and trade.; Anti-infective agents.; Food > Microbiology.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9780857090522
• ISSN: 2042-8057 ;
• Physical Description: 1 online zdroj (xxiv, 489 p.) : ill.

Consumers favour foods with fewer synthetic additives, but products must also be safe to eat and have a sufficiently long shelf-life. Biopreservation, the use of a product's natural microflora and its antibacterial products for protection against pathogens and spoilage, is a method of growing i...