Volume 43, Issue 10 e14144
ORIGINAL ARTICLE

The effects of the osmotic dehydration parameters on reduction of selected microorganisms on chicken meat

Ivana Filipović

Ivana Filipović

Faculty of Technology, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia

SP Laboratory, Bečej, Serbia

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Siniša Markov

Siniša Markov

Faculty of Technology, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia

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Vladimir Filipović

Corresponding Author

Vladimir Filipović

Faculty of Technology, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia

Correspondence

Vladimir Filipović, Faculty of Technology, University of Novi Sad, Boulevard Cara Lazara 1, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia.

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Jelena Filipović

Jelena Filipović

Institute for Food Technology, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia

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Vesna Vujačić

Vesna Vujačić

Faculty of Toursim and Hospitality, University of Montenegro, Kotor, Montenegro

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Lato Pezo

Lato Pezo

Institute for General and Physical Chemistry, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

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First published: 07 August 2019
Citations: 4

Abstract

Analysis of the influence of osmotic dehydration on reduction of selected microorganisms inoculated on dehydrating chicken meat, as a mean of assessing the microbiological safety of osmotic dehydration process, is conducted. Chicken meat cubes were inoculated with Esherichia coli, Listeria monocytogenes, and Salmonella spp. and subjected to the osmotic dehydration process with varied parameters of: process duration, osmotic solutions concentration, and type of solution. Samples of osmodehydrated chicken meat were analyzed by standard and modified ISO methods. The results pointed that the increase in time and concentration have led to the higher microbiological reduction, while the osmotic dehydration performed in sugar beet molasses exerted the higher reduction ratios compared to the process in aqueous osmotic solution. Calculated mathematical models of reduction ratios for selected microorganisms on chicken meat were statistically significant, indicating on satisfactory approximation of reduction ratios values within the applied parameters.

Practical applications

Mathematical models, calculated in this investigation, which describe the effects of osmotic dehydration on reduction of selected microorganisms on chicken meat, allow better understanding and managing of product safety during the process of osmodehydration.

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

The authors have declared no conflicts of interest for this article.

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