Non-Thermal Methods for Ensuring the Microbiological Quality and Safety of Seafood

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

1 The article is too long, it has the character of a Monograph. Must be shortened.

2 The abstract must contain the objective, methods and results. Must be revised.

You state: „Each of these technologies has a specific mode of  microbial inactivation and a specific range of use.“

Add in specific, which of the processing methods (High hydrostatic pressure processing  (HHP), Ultrasounds (US), Non-Thermal Atmospheric Plasma (NTAP), Pulsed Electric Fields (PEF), and Electrolyzed Water (EW)) is most advantageous for the quality of the fish processing and which for the processing of the seafood.

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Reviewer 2 Report

Development and detailed efficiency-analysis of non-thermal pathogen destruction methods for food (especially for fish and seafood) has high importance in the field of food technology and food safety, as well. Therefore, manuscript applsci-1082736 has a topic that is presumable for high interest for the readers of Applied Sciences Journal.

Authors of Sotirios I Ekonomou , Ioannis S Boziaris presented a review study on the principles and applicability of high hydrostatic pressure processing, ultrasounds, non-thermal atmospheric llasma, pulsed electric field and electrolyzed water for nactivating microbial contaminants in food matrix.

Manuscript is well structured and generally well written. The principles and efficiency of different types of non-thermal methods are discussed with relevant references. Amendments and additional refences discussed made the manuscript more clear and complete.

Review manuscript contains interesting and valuable results for the researcher and for industry practitioners, as well. I suggest a minor revision before publishing (see comments).

 

 

Comments, suggestions:

#1: As authors mentioned some methods discussed in the manuscript have already been adopted by the seafood industry for many years (mainly the HHP). Therefore, I suggest to consider the change the title of manuscript to ‘Non-thermal methods for ensuring the microbiological 2 quality and safety of seafood’ (without the term of ‘novel’).

 

#2: I suggest the authors to check the manuscript to find typing errors (100 οC in some cases, etc. for instance)

 

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