3. Results & Discussion
3.1. Antimicrobial efficacy
Investigating the antimicrobial efficacy of the developed film, for E. coli DSM 498 a count reduction
of 6.5 log, for Listeria monocytogenes DSM 346 a count reduction of 5.6 log and for Saccharomyces
cerevisiae DSM 70449 a count reduction of 5.4 log was observed in comparison to the reference samples
(Fig. 1). These findings prove that the developed antimicrobial film protects effective against pathogenic
food-infecting microorganisms like E. coli and Listeria monocytogenes as well as food spoiling
contaminants like yeasts.