How does ozone kill bacteria?

Posted by Joel Leusink on March 28, 2010 under Food Industry | 8 Comments to Read

A healthy bacillus bacterial cell (waiting to ruin your day).
Zooming in closer, Ozone (light green) comes into contact with the cell wall. The cell wall is vital to the bacteria because it ensures the organism can maintain its shape.
As ozone molecules make contact with the cell wall, a reaction called an oxidative burst occurs which literally creates a tiny hole in the cell wall.
A newly created hole in the cell wall has injured the bacterium.
The bacterium begins to lose its shape while ozone molecules continue creating holes in the cell wall.
After thousands of ozone collisions over only a few seconds, the bacterial wall can no longer maintain its shape and the cell dies.

Note: bacteria cannot build an immunity to ozone due to the oxidation that occurs on the cell wall.

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Hussien AL-Shammery said,

I question whether ozone affects fish tissue during the killing of the bacteria or not, and what is evidence for that?
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Joel Leusink said,

Ozone should not affect the fish tissue. We have many applications where ozone is used in the seafood processing industry. For more details below are links to a few white papers on this exact subject:
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01919510701312965
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1300/J030v13n01_10
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01919512.2011.602006

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