Sanitizerwash is the principal processing step followed in the produce industry to reduce the microbial load, where about two-thirds of manufacturers follow a chlorine based wash as the prime step for post harvest decontamination (Gündüz, G€onül, & Karapinar, 2010). However, effectiveness of chlorine wash is limited to about 2 log CFU reductions of pathogens (Brackett, 1999; Herdt & Feng, 2009).