Antimicrobial activity of essential oils against Listeria monocytogenes

  • Tomičić R
  • Čabarkapa I
  • Varga A
  • et al.
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Abstract

The antimicrobial activity of 32 plant essential oils com- monly used in food industry was examined against four strains of Listeria monocytogenes and one strain of Listeria innocua. Two different procedures were carried out to test the essential oils, a paper disc diffusion method and an inhibition curve. In the former procedure an absolute ethanolic solution (1:5 v/v) of each oil was tested on the plates inoculated with a bacterial concentration of 106 CFU/ml. Five of the 32 essential oils (cinnamon, clove, origanum, pimento, and thyme) showed antibacterial activity. Some of the five oils were also tested at lower concentration (1:50 v/v). The inhibition curve to study antilisteric efficacies of the five oils in a saline solution system was examined. Pimento oil showed marked and rapid activity (generally within 1 h of exposure), whereas clove, origanum, and thyme oils showed a more slow activity. The antilisteric activity of the tested oils seems to be strain dependent. A L. monocytogenes strain was also tested in a food matrix (minced pork meat) against thyme essential oil. Minced pork meat with thyme oil reduced the L. monocytogenes population by ca. 100-fold over the first week of storage.

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Tomičić, R., Čabarkapa, I., Varga, A., & Tomičić, Z. (2018). Antimicrobial activity of essential oils against Listeria monocytogenes. Food and Feed Research, 45(1), 37–44. https://doi.org/10.5937/ffr1801037t

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