Claim · model-written summary
High-intensity infrared drying with 180-second intermittent heating significantly reduced microbial load on corn.
- Taxon
- corn
Zea mays subsp. mayse0 - Treatment
- high intensity and intermittent heating duration of 180 se0
- Outcome
- microbial load on corne0
- Direction
- reducede0
- Value
- 2.03 ± 1.2 log CFU/ g of corne0
- Qualifier
- 4.79 ± 0.15e0
- Comparator
- 24% MCe0
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Verbatim
e0“The microbial load on corn at 24% MC when dried at the high intensity and intermittent heating duration of 180 s to 13% MC were significantly reduced from 4.79 ± 0.15 to 2.03 ± 1.2 log CFU/ g of corn.”
Title
Drying and Decontamination of Corn Using a Pilot-Scale Continuous-Flow Radiant Heating System
Shantae A. Wilson; Griffiths G. Atungulu; Gbenga Olatunde 2016 ASABE International Meeting 2016. doi:10.13031/aim.20162460256
Other claims from this paper (3)
- Intervention effect High-intensity infrared heating with 30-second intermittent heating dried corn from 24% to 13% moisture in 395 seconds.
- Intervention effect Infrared drying treatments did not affect dried corn color relative to fresh corn.
- Recommendation The authors conclude infrared drying may provide rapid corn drying and microbial decontamination.