The efficacy of LAE on Salmonella survivability in
chicken breast fillets was determined under aerobic
refrigerated storage. Counts of Salmonella in positive
control ranged from 4.3 to 5.1 log cfu/g throughout 7
d of storage (Table 1). Except on d 3, treating chicken
breast fillets with 400 ppm of LAE caused a significant
reduction (P < 0.05) in Salmonella populations
on all days of analysis compared with positive control
with the only exception on d 5 with a P-value ofThe reductions in Salmonella after treatment
with 400 ppm ranged from 0.7 to 1.0 log cfu/g with 1.0
log reduction on d 0 and 1 of storage. The reduction
of Salmonella 400 ppm LAE treatment was maintained
till d 7 of storage with 0.9 log reduction observed on
d 7 compared with the control. Treatment of chicken
breast fillets with 200 ppm also caused significant reductions
(P ≤ 0.0953) of Salmonella populations on
d 0, 1, and 7 of storage with level of reduction of 0.7
log cfu/g as compared with control on each day. There
was no difference (P > 0.05) between the 2 LAE treatments
(200 and 400 ppm LAE) on all days of analysis,
although treating chicken breast fillets with 400 ppm
LAE exhibited greater reduction of Salmonella up to
1.0 log compared with 0.7 log reduction with 200 ppm
LAE treatment.