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00925njm 22002777a 4500 dc Abadias i Sero, Mª Isabel author Colás Medà, Pilar author Viñas Almenar, Inmaculada author Bobo, Gloria author Aguiló-Aguayo, Ingrid author 2022-11-13T10:37:43Z 2022-11-13T10:37:43Z 2021 We aimed to study the efficacy of a water-assisted UVC light device (WUVC) as an innovative clean technology for the disinfection of fresh sound tomatoes and processing wash water and water turbidity was evaluated as a critical parameter. First, wash waters with different turbidities (from 0.4 to 828 NTU) were inoculated with Listeria innocua and treated in the WUVC device at different dosages. Secondly, fresh tomatoes, inoculated with L. innocua and non-inoculated ones, were treated using the WUVC device containing wash water of different turbidities for different times. The reduction of L. innocua populations on wash water and on the surface of tomato was influenced by turbidity; lower reduction values were observed at higher turbidities. Washing tomatoes with tap water with UVC lamps off (control treatment, TW) decreased L. innocua population on the surface of tomatoes but did not eliminate those bacteria that went into the water. Contrarily, when UVC lights were on, L. innocua population in wash water after treatment significantly decreased, those in clean water being the lowest populations. Reductions of native microbiota on the clean water treated with the highest UV-C radiation dose were lower than those obtained when tomatoes were artificially inoculated. We demonstrated that high reductions of L. innocua population on fresh tomatoes could be achieved using the WUVC system but some drawbacks related to the increase of turbidity should be solved for its implementation in real conditions. The authors are grateful to TECALZIM Research Project (Mitigation Strategies to Reduce the Microbial Risks and Improve the Quality and Safety of Frozen and Ready-to-Eat Strawberries) which was funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry, and Competitiveness (RTC- 2016-5498-2) and CERCA Programme (Generalitat de Catalunya) for its financial support. I. Aguil´o-Aguayo thanks the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness and the European Social Fund for the Postdoctoral Senior Grant Ramon y Cajal (RYC-2016-19949). Thanks are also given to Marina Anguera for her technical assistance. http://hdl.handle.net/10459.1/84208 Water assisted UVC Listeria innocua Microbial load reduction Wash water quality Water turbidity Application of an innovative water-assisted ultraviolet C light technology for the inactivation of microorganisms in tomato processing industries