National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692 Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Food garnishes are often used in an uncooked form. Hence, the chance of contamination is high. The present research work was carried out to isolate potentially pathogenic and food spoilage causing bacteria from commonly used food garnishes. Eight such bacteria were isolated and characterized. In an event of food poisoning, the therapeutic approach would be to prescribe antibiotics. However, if these bacteria are already resistant to the prescribed antibiotics, the treatment would be ineffective. To understand whether the isolated bacteria are already antibiotic resistant, antibiotic sensitivity tests were conducted. It was found that all eight isolated bacteria were resistant to one or more antibiotics. Due to this resistance to multiple antibiotics, another approach to counter food poisoning and food spoilage would be to prevent the initial contamination of the food item to which garnishes have been added. To address this, several home-based remedies were analyzed for their role as decontaminants. It was found that many of these decontaminants, especially vinegar and 5% salt in vinegar were effective. Thus, such home remedies can be used for washing food garnishes before application onto food items to reduce chances of food spoilage and food-borne infection by antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
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