Caterina Maccaferri, Ana Sainz-García, Filippo Capelli, Matteo Gherardi, Fernando Alba-Elías, Romolo Laurita
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Abstract
The food industry, as a consequence of globalization and in particular with the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, is calling for additional measures to reduce the risks of contamination throughout the steps of the food chain. Several methods are used to avoid this problem, such as hot water or chemical procedures. However, they have some disadvantages like high economic costs or the fact that they are not eco-friendly technologies. For those reasons, novel strategies are being sought in order to substitute or work in synergy with conventional decontamination systems. Cold atmospheric pressure plasma (CAP) can be produced by many various sources for a wide range of different applications, including decontamination. In this study, a Large-Area Surface Dielectric Barrier Discharge plasma source has been used with the aim of inactivating Staphylococcus epidermidis inoculated on polypropylene food packaging samples inside a treatment chamber. Moreover, electrical and chemical analysis of the plasma source has been carried out, as well as temperature measurements. A homogenous distribution of the reactive species inside the treatment chamber was suggested, achieving almost 2 log of bacteria reduction for every plasma treatment. Finally, it was suggested that the inactivation rates reached were not caused by the thermal effect. Thus, it is strongly believed that CAP could be an eco-friendly, cheap, and sustainable technology for food packaging and food tools decontamination.
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Publishing original papers on fundamental and applied research in plasma chemistry and plasma processing, the scope of this journal includes processing plasmas ranging from non-thermal plasmas to thermal plasmas, and fundamental plasma studies as well as studies of specific plasma applications. Such applications include but are not limited to plasma catalysis, environmental processing including treatment of liquids and gases, biological applications of plasmas including plasma medicine and agriculture, surface modification and deposition, powder and nanostructure synthesis, energy applications including plasma combustion and reforming, resource recovery, coupling of plasmas and electrochemistry, and plasma etching. Studies of chemical kinetics in plasmas, and the interactions of plasmas with surfaces are also solicited. It is essential that submissions include substantial consideration of the role of the plasma, for example, the relevant plasma chemistry, plasma physics or plasma–surface interactions; manuscripts that consider solely the properties of materials or substances processed using a plasma are not within the journal’s scope.
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