Risk-based assessment and criteria specification of the microbial safety of wastewater reuse in food processing: Managing Listeria monocytogenes contamination in pasteurized fluid milk

• Published in: Water research (Oxford) Vol. 171; p. 115466
• Main Authors: Dogan, Onay B., Meneses, Yulie E., Flores, Rolando A., Wang, Bing
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Elsevier Ltd 15.03.2020
• Subjects: Animals; Cleaning-in-place; DALY; Female; Food Contamination; Food Handling; Humans; Listeria monocytogenes; Microbiological limits; Milk; Pregnancy; Quantitative microbial risk assessment; Risk Assessment; Waste Water; Wastewater reuse; Microbiological limits; Quantitative microbial risk assessment; Cleaning-in-place; DALY; Wastewater reuse

Intense pressure on water resources has led to efforts to reuse reclaimed processing wastewater for cleaning purposes in food processing plants. The milk industry produces considerable amounts of wastewater, which can be used for cleaning of equipment after appropriate treatment. However, due to nat...