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The document discusses factors affecting the growth of microorganisms and practices for storing foods. It analyzes food storage practices and enumerates five factors that affect microbial growth. Reheating leftover foods is recommended to kill harmful microorganisms. Sanitizers are required to reduce microbes by 99.9% according to EPA standards.

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Activity and Analyisis

The document discusses factors affecting the growth of microorganisms and practices for storing foods. It analyzes food storage practices and enumerates five factors that affect microbial growth. Reheating leftover foods is recommended to kill harmful microorganisms. Sanitizers are required to reduce microbes by 99.9% according to EPA standards.

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Republic of the Philippines

University of Southeastern
Philippines
College of Agriculture and Related Sciences
Tagum-Mabini Campus

In partial fulfillment of the Course Subject


Agri 226: Fundamentals of Food Science and Technology

Activity and Analysis of the


Factors Affecting the Growth of Microorganisms

Submitted by:
ELENGENE S. ABULOC
BSA_2A4

February 25, 2024


Module 2: Changes and Spoilage of Foods
Lesson 2: Factors Affecting the Growth of Microorganisms and the Control
Measures

ACTIVITY
Table 1. Practices of storing foods in the home and suggestions for improvement.
Bad Practices Good Practices Suggestions for
Improvement (for bad
practices)
FIFO
Meat and fish are put into
separate containers
before storing.
The meat and fish is
portioned before being
frozen for once thawing
and consumption.
(Magic Sarap) seasonings Provide a sealed
that are open and half- container to store half-use
use are put aside in an seasonings.
open area and used
again for tomorrow.

Table 2. System of storing foods in a food establishment.


Observation of the Comments Suggestions for
methods/system of storing Improvement
foods
FIFO Splendid use of resources
Freezing/Refrigeration The meat and fish are
kept in a frozen state.
Thawed foods are not re- It prevents contamination.
frozen
Snacks such as junk It was said to prevent the
foods are hang rats from reaching them.
Pre-peeled and cut It amazes me how the
vegtables (sari-sari) are vegetables such as
stored in a knotted eggplant were prevented
transparent plastic bag from turning brownish.

ANALYSIS
Answer the following questions:
1. Enumerate 5 factors that affect the growth of microorganisms in food.
 Nutrition concentration.
 Temperature.
 pH Level
 Ions and salt concentration.
 Available water.

2. Do you re-heat left over foods before eating? Why or why not? How often do you
usually reheat left over foods? Why?

Yes, to avoid eating cold food and to kill preferably the harmful
microorganisms in the food. If the food was cooked in the morning it would
be reheated in the afternoon and evening for dinner. If some is still left, it
would be put in the refrigerator and reheated in the morning.

3. Why can sanitizer and disinfectant kill only 99.9% germs?

The reason many products say 'kills 99.9 percent' of bacteria on


the label is because that is the performance threshold for the sanitizer
test EPA requires (ASTM E1153) if people want to market products as
sanitizers. In other words, a 99.9 percent reduction is EPA's arbitrary
cutoff for sanitizer performance. They test it to certain tolerances and
the law for cleaning products says they have to meet a three log
reduction. That is 99.9%. But if products killed 100%, that would be
dangerous for people as it would mean that we would be exposed to
products too powerful for humans.

References:

https://microbenotes.com/factors-affecting-the-growth-of-microorganisms-in-
food/

https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/just_how_effective_is_hand_sanitizer#:~:text=There
%20are%20germs%20like%20Noro,on%20as%20always%20being%20true.

https://www.inquirer.com/philly/health/hand-sanitizers-kill-99-percent-germs-purell-
20171129.html#:~:text=The%20bottom%20line%3A%20real%2Dworld,%22visibly
%20dirty%20or%20greasy.%22

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