Resistance of the constitutive microflora of biofilms formed on whey reverse osmosis membranes to individual cleaning steps of a typical clean-in-place (CIP) protocol.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2013
Journal
Journal of Dairy Science
Issue
96
Pages
9
Language
en
Abstract
This experiment evaluates the effectiveness of individual steps of a clean-in-place protocol against the biofilm constitutive microflora isolated from the biofilms developed on whey reverse-osmosis membranes, aged 2 to 14 mo, under industrial processing conditions. The isolates used for the in vitro resistance studies included species ofBacillus, Enterococcus, Streptococcus, Staphylococcus, Micrococcus, Aeromonas,Corynebacterium, Pseudomonas, Klebsiella, and Escherichia. The 6 cleaning steps (alkali, surfactant, acid, enzyme, a second surfactant, and sanitizer treatment) revealed resistance of isolates in both planktonic and biofilm-embedded cell states. The most effective step was the acid treatment, which resulted in 4.54 to 7.90 and 2.09 to 5.02 log reductions of the planktonic and biofilm-embedded cells, respectively. Although the sanitizer step causing a reduction of 4.91 to 8.33 log in the case of planktonic cells, it was less effective against the biofilm-embedded cells, resulting in a reduction of 0.59 to 1.64 log. Bacillus spp. showed the highest resistance in both planktonic, as well as embedded cell states.
Recommended Citation
Anand, S. K. and Diwakar, S., "Resistance of the constitutive microflora of biofilms formed on whey reverse osmosis membranes to individual cleaning steps of a typical clean-in-place (CIP) protocol." (2013). Dairy Science Publication Database. 1309.
https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/dairy_pubdb/1309
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Research