Plasma Technology in Food Industry: mini-review

Abstract

Plasma treatment is an interesting technology with many potential applications in industry. At present, more and more often we encounter papers that deal with utilization of plasma technology in food industry. This mini-review provides an overview of the latest developments in this area. At the beginning the principles of plasma interaction with solid surfaces are shortly discussed. The next chapters are focused on sterilization of food from bacteria and fungi. The infl uence of plasma treatment on the food quality and nutritional parameters is discussed in last section.

Keywords

• plasma technology
• sterilization
• decontamination
• food industry
• bacteria
• fungi
• mycotoxins