RAPID PREDICTION OF THE STABILITY OF CANNED GOODS BY FLOW CYTOMETRY

The marketing of canned products requires the conformity of the batches to the stability controls, an experimental measure for which the incubation time of the samples at different temperatures is 7 days (routine method). Study of the possibility of using flow cytometry to detect and quantify more rapidly the population of viable microorganisms on vegetable products and ready-made meals. By this fast technology, non-stability could probably be detected earlier than with classical microbiology.