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    Food spoilage is the process where a food product becomes unsuitable to ingest by the consumer. The cause of such a process is due to many outside factors...
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  • organic substances are broken down into simpler matter. Food spoilage, the process in which food deteriorates to the point in which it is not edible to...
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    major impact on food preservation techniques. Louis Pasteur's research on the spoilage of wine and his description of how to avoid spoilage in 1864, was...
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    relationship between microorganisms, food spoilage, and illness. Foods have varying degrees of natural protection against spoilage and may require that the final...
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  • The spoilage of meat occurs, if the meat is untreated, in a matter of hours or days and results in the meat becoming unappetizing, poisonous, or infectious...
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    causing food spoilage; pathogens that may cause disease (especially if food is improperly cooked or stored); microbes used to produce fermented foods such...
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    becomes food spoilage or damage to property. They also play important roles in biotechnology and food science in the production of various pigments, foods, beverages...
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    et al. Spoilage resulting from growth of the yeast Zygosaccharomyces is widespread, which has caused significant economic losses to the food industry...
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    potential, the food becomes inhospitable for the microbe growth that causes food spoilage. Curing can be traced back to antiquity, and was the primary method...
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    non-enzymatic Pseudomonas species contributing to spoilage in high number. Food spoilage is detrimental to the food industry due to production of volatile compounds...
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    Cooking (redirect from Food heating)
    ten minutes at 100 °C (212 °F). Food safety depends on the safe preparation, handling, and storage of food. Food spoilage bacteria proliferate in the "Danger...
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    Pasteurization (category Food processing)
    destroys or deactivates microorganisms and enzymes that contribute to food spoilage or the risk of disease, including vegetative bacteria, but most bacterial...
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    beams. Food irradiation improves food safety and extends product shelf life (preservation) by effectively destroying organisms responsible for spoilage and...
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    Fungus (section In food)
    to fungal diseases (e.g., rice blast disease) or food spoilage can have a large impact on human food supplies and local economies. The fungus kingdom...
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    canning food, preserving food through food irradiation, and candling eggs, as well as homogenizing and pasteurizing milk. Contamination and spoilage problems...
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  • Givskov, Michael (2002). "Food spoilage: interactions between food spoilage bacteria" (PDF). International Journal of Food Microbiology. 78 (1–2): 79–97...
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    the food is below −9.5 °C (15 °F), which is sufficient on its own in preventing food spoilage. Long-term preservation of food may call for food storage...
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    microorganisms causing food spoilage. "Good" bacteria, however, such as probiotics, are becoming increasingly important in food science. In addition, microorganisms...
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    Leeuwenhoek. In the 1850s, Louis Pasteur found that microorganisms caused food spoilage, debunking the theory of spontaneous generation. In the 1880s, Robert...
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    Yeast (category Fermentation in food processing)
    "Detection, identification and enumeration methods for spoilage yeasts". In Blackburn CDW (ed.). Food spoilage microorganisms. Cambridge, England: Woodhead Publishing...
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    the nutrition and energy of rations, food spoilage prevention, what meals should be offered, the amount of food each ration should contain, and the exact...
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    salt has also been shown to be contaminated by fungi that can cause food spoilage as well as some that may be mycotoxigenic. In traditional Korean cuisine...
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    before it can be milled. Food stored under unsuitable conditions should not be purchased or used because of risk of spoilage. To test whether grain is...
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  • Ionizing radiation inhibits the vitality of microorganisms responsible for food spoilage and delays the maturation and sprouting of preserving vegetables and...
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    species and is of major importance in the natural environment, in food spoilage, and in food and drug production. Some members of the genus produce penicillin...
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    Bacillus licheniformis (category Food microbiology)
    V.; Urdaci, M. C. (2003). "Genetic diversity and involvement in bread spoilage of Bacillus strains isolated from flour and ropy bread". Letters in Applied...
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  • Saran (plastic) (category Food preparation utensils)
    oxygen. This oxygen barrier prevents food spoilage, while the film barrier to flavor and aroma molecules helps food retain its flavor and aroma. Polyvinylidene...
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    anti-proliferative and anti-quorum sensing properties, helping against food spoilage. The berries are also macerated in alcohol to make Mirto liqueur. This...
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    food and extending its shelf life. The biopreservation of food, especially utilizing lactic acid bacteria (LAB) that are inhibitory to food spoilage microbes...
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    many other foods. Yeasts spoil sugary foods such as plums and jams, fermenting the sugars to alcohol. Scientific understanding of spoilage began in the...
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