| evaluation of levulinic acid and sodium dodecyl sulfate as a sanitizer for use in processing georgia-grown cantaloupes. | freshly harvested georgia-grown cantaloupes (cucumis melo l. var. reticulatus cv. athena and atlantis) were spot inoculated with 100 μl of a five-strain mixture of salmonella enterica serovar poona (9 log cfu/ml) at the stem scar and on the netted rind and then subjected to no treatment (control) or a 6-min treatment (tank only) in water, 120 ppm of chlorine (ph 7.0), 1% levulinic acid plus 0.1% sodium dodecyl sulfate (sds; ph 3.0), or 2% levulinic acid plus 0.2% sds (ph 3.0). the log reduction ... | 2013 | 24112578 |