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| Author(s): |
Cristiane Cassiolato Pires
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Piracicaba. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz (ESALA/BC) |
| Defense date: | 2006-08-28 |
| Examining board members: |
Marta Helena Fillet Spoto;
Claudio Rosa Gallo;
Julio Marcos Melges Walder
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| Advisor: | Marta Helena Fillet Spoto |
| Abstract | |
The orange juice has attributes could make that hard or even block the growth. of microorganisms, even so already have been isolated filamentous fungi, yeast, as well lactics and heat resistant bacteria. Alicyclobacillus acidoterrestris is a heat resistant bacteria that has done damage in the orange juice concentrated and frozen business. This bacterium is able the grown in temperatures below 35°C constituting a risk to orange juices that have been contaminated. Even those that already pass trough thermal treatment may deteriorated, if they are storage in place without refrigeration. As the traditional methods of decontamination and conservation have not been effective in inviabilizated this bacterium, others methods of sterilization are need, among them are gamma and ultrasound radiation. The gamma radiation is able to sterilize foods and reduce the microbiology density, allowing in this way to enhance the period of storage. The ultrasound application has been used currently with the aim to microbiology control, been this technique effective in the microbial cell destruction. The Brazil, are the major producer and exporter of concentrated frozen orange juice, due to it, the present work was carried out to two experiments with the aim to determinate the resistance of the bacterium Alicyclobacillus acidoterrestris to gamma and ultrasound irradiation, in the orange juice, priory contaminated. The orange juice samples was diluted to 11,5°Brix and the bacteria suspensions was added, passed by process of radiation gamma with dose of 0, 2, 4, 6 and 8 kGy and ultrasonic with the frequency of 25, 35 and 42 kHz and with the time of exposition of 0, 1, 5, 10 and 20 minutes. After the treatment, the samples were storaged in room temperature (25±2°C) and of refrigeration (4±1°C). For the microbial analyses, the samples were diluted in to decimal scale, plated by \"pour plate\" technique. The Petri plates were storage in warn temperature (46±2°C) by 48 hours, after it the UFC was counted mL. The microbiological quality of the juice was evaluated in determinated period of storaged (1, 10, 20, 30 e 40 days). By statistical of variance of the experiment conducted with the radiations, it was noted that has been significant effect (p>0,05) to gamma radiation doses where occurred microbial density reduction with the raised of radiation doses and the interaction of the period with the storage temperature, where at room temperature occurred a oscillation in the total counting of bacteria, but for refrigeration temperature the total counting of bacteria reduced with the raised of storage period. The ultrasound frequency showed also reduction to the microbial counting with the raised of the ultrasound frequency and the period of storage showed the highest bacteria counting in the first day. Both treatment, were effective to promote bacteria reduction, but not completed elimination of A. acidoterrestris. (AU) | |