Das amostras de hortaliças em folhas coletadas no período de abril a agosto de 1981, no Entreposto Comercial da Cidade de São Paulo, SP (Brasil), 75% e 57% apresentaram contagens de coliformes fecais e de Escherichia coli, por grama de produto, superiores a 2 x 10² respectivamente; e em 85% constatou-se a presença de parasitas protozoários ou/e helmintos. O tratamento químico das folhas de alface (Lactuca sativa), com solução de hipoclorito de sódio, por um período de exposição de 10 min à concentração de 40 ppm de cloro livre, mostrou-se eficaz do ponto de vista parasitológico.

Paper strips inoculated with spores of Bacillus stearothermophilus ATCC 7953 were conventionally dried (lot 1) and lyophilized (lot 2); stored in defined environments of 32 and 86% relative humidity at 10, 25 and 33 degrees C for 210 d; and submitted to moist heat treatments at 121 degrees C. A significant decrease in thermal resistance from initial starting levels was found for lyophilized bioindicators stored at 86% relative humidity. The respective average D121 degrees C values were 1.55+/-0.05 and 1.37+/-0.10 min for lyophilized bioindicators stored at 32 and 86% relative humidity; and 1.65+/-0.15 min and 1.57+/-0.11 min for dried bioindicators stored in the same environments.

The recombinant green fluorescent protein (gfp(uv)) was expressed by Escherichia coli DH5-alpha cells transformed with the plasmid pGFPuv. The gfp(uv) was selectively permeabilized from the cells in buffer solution (25 mM Tris-HCl, pH 8.0), after freezing (-70 degrees C for 15 h), by four freeze (-20 degrees C)/thaw cycles interlaid by sonication. The average content of released gfp(uv) (experiment 2) was 7.76, 34.58, 39.38, 12.90, and 5.38%, for the initial freezing (-70 degrees C) and the first, second, third and fourth freeze/thaw cycles, respectively. Superfusion on freezing was observed between -11 degrees C and -14 degrees C, after which it reached -20 degrees C at 0.83 degrees C/min.

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