“…Five differentSalmonella Typhimurium concentrations could be detected in natural orange juice samples (100, 250, 500, 750, and 1000 CFU/mL). According toGómez et al (2021) andMuntean et al, (2021), after the detection of Salmonella, a FTIR band was identified as characteristic at 1030 cm −1 , this band is related to bonds (P=O, C=O, P-O-C, and P-O-P) present in the bacterial cell membrane components like phospholipids and glycerophospholipids(Dalebroux et al, 2015); as well as the sugar phosphate backbone from DNA(Heaney and Graeff-Armas, 2018), this wavenumber value was considered to confirm the detection of the bacteria on a-Si biosensors. In Figure2, FTIR spectra corresponding to the detection of microorganism in the juice are shown; lower spectrum corresponds to a-Si biosensor prior detection, furthermore, orange juice FTIR spectrum was used as control in this study, since this food contains some compounds like vitamin C, carbohydrates (fructose, glucose, sucrose), proteins, and dietary fiber(Chanson-Rolle et al, 2016) that could interfere in the identification of the FTIR Salmonella band detection, despite this, no similar bands are observed when comparing the orange juice FTIR spectrum with the microorganism detection FTIR spectra.…”