As control measures, various interventions have been endorsed to reduce its contamination of fresh produce along the food chain and during processing. Over time, a chlorine wash has been commonly employed to reduce micro-bial loads on fresh produce prior to subsequent processing.However, development of resistant mutants, and accumula-tion of halogen-based residues, which could elicit a noxious risk to both food and consumers have reduced its continuou sutilisation.These outcomes have incited a clamour to theuse of natural anti microbials such as nisin and organic acids or salts for reducing pathogens with a high mortality rate,such as L. monocytogenes, wherein the compounds serve as bio-cidal agents, while the nutritional integrity of fresh produce is substantially retained