Microbial biofilm in food factories
“Many bacteria are able to attack to and colonize environmental surfaces by producing a biofilm, which allows the organisms to persist in the environment and resist desiccation, UV light and treatment with antimicrobial and sanitizing agents. Biofilms are formed when microbes attach to a solid support and to each other by extracellular polymeric substances (EPS), and on a wide variety of surfaces, including metal, plastic, rock and living or dead tissue. Once in a biofilm, bacteria can be several orders of magnitude more resistant to antimicrobials than their planktonic counterparts”.
Dr. E. Komitopoulou in the paper “Microbial Biofilm: A concern for Industry” – Magazine New Food, Volume 15, Issue 3, 2012 Pages 56-58.
