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One hundred of lactic cultures were evaluated for their ability to inhibit hazardous microbes, such as Salmonella enteritidis, Salmonella typhimurium, Escherichia coli, Listeria monocytogenes, and Bacillus cereus by agar well diffusion method. None of them showed inhibitory halo against S. enteritidis, while 27 strains showed inhibitory activity against S. typhimurium, 6 against E. coli, 9 against ampicillin resistant E. coli, 31 against L. monocytogens, 10 against B. cereus. pH of the culture does not explain for the inhibitory activity except against B. cereus. A neutralized culture from corn silage showed highest inhibitory activity against S. typhimurium, and the size of inhibitory halo was same as 10 ug/mL of ampicillin. The culture was identified to be Lactobacillus buchneri on the basis of biochemical characteristics and utilization of substrates. Using the culture as probiotics could be expected to reduce antibiotics for animal feeding.

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A time-temperature integrator (TTI) is a device used to show a time-temperature dependent change that reflects the temperature history and quality status of the food to which it is attached. An enzymatic TTI system based on the reaction between Burkholderia cepacia lipase and tricaprylin, which causes a pH change, was developed. The temperature dependence of the response rate of this new lipase-type TTI was modeled using the Arrhenius equation, and the estimated activation energy was calculated as 70.61±11.10 kJ/mol (±95% confidence interval). The TTI response was validated under dynamic storage conditions with independent variable temperature experiments, and a good agreement was obtained between the predicted and measured values.

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