amartinez@iata.csic.es

Publications

• REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

  ▪ Sublethal injury and virulence changes in L. monocytogenes and L. innocua treated with carvacrol and citral. Food Microbiology, 2015, DOI information: 10.1016/j.fm.2015.02.016
  ▪ Antimicrobial activity of açaí against Listeria innocua. Food Control. Accepted in January 2015
  ▪ Comparative study of the effects of citral on the growth and injury of Listeria innocua and Listeria monocytogenes cells. PLOS One DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0114026 February 2, 2015
  ▪ Antimicrobial activity of cauliflower (Brassica oleracea var. Botrytis) by-product
  ▪ against Listeria monocytogenes. Food Control. 50, 435-440. 2015
  ▪ Effect of citral and carvacrol on the susceptibility of Listeria monocytogenes and Listeria innocua to antibiotics. Letters in Applied Microbiology. 58(5), 486-492, 2014
  ▪ Effectiveness of a peracetic acid-based disinfectant against spores of Bacillus cereus under different environmental conditions Food Control. 39, 1-7, 2014.
  ▪ Growth kinetics of Listeria innocua and Listeria monocytogenes under exposure to carvacrol and the occurrence of sublethal damage, Food Control. 37, 336-342, 2014
  ▪ Use of the modified Gompertz equation to assess the Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni antilisterial kinetics, Food Microbiology, 38, 56-61. 2014.
  ▪ Influence of the treatment of Listeria monocytogenes and Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium with citral on the efficacy of various antibiotics, Foodborne Pathogens and Disease. 11(4), 265-271, 2014
  ▪ Impact assessment of carvacrol and citral effect on Escherichia coli K12 and Listeria innocua growth, Food Control. Volume: 33 /2, 536-544, 2013
  ▪ Cocoa powder as a natural ingredient revealing an enhancing effect to inactivate Cronobacter sakazakii cells treated by Pulsed Electric Fields in infant milk beverages. Food Control, 32, 87-92. 2013.
  ▪ Characterisation of the resistance and the growth variability of Listeria monocytogenes after high hydrostatic pressure treatments. Food Control 29 409-415, 2013
  ▪ Non-thermal inactivation of Cronobacter sakazakii in Infant Formula Milk: a review Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition, Aceptado Marzo 2013.
  ▪ Sublethally damaged cells of Escherichia coli by Pulsed Electric Fields: the chance of transformation and proteomic assays. Food Research International, 54, 1120-1127. 2013.
  ▪ A preliminary assessment model for Bacillus cereus cells in a milk based beverage: Evaluating High Pressure Processing abd antimicrobial intervetions, Food Control. 26: 610-613 2012
  ▪ Cronobacter sakazakii growth prediction in reconstituted powdered infant formula milk. Journal of Food Safety and Food Quality. Archiv für Lebensmittelhygiene. 63, 6, 165-196. 2012.
  ▪ Inactivation Kinetics of Spores of Bacillus cereus Strains Treated by a Peracetic Acid–Based Disinfectant at Different Concentrations and Temperatures. Foodborne Pathogens And Disease Volume 9, Number 5, 2012
  ▪ Cinnamon antimicrobial effect againts Salmonella typhimurium cells treated by pulsed electric fields (PEF) in pasteurized skim milk beverage. Food Research International 48:777-783 2012.
  ▪ Modelling the effect of pH and pectin concentration on the PEF inactivation of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium by using the Monte Carlo simulation. Food Control 22 ,420 -425. 2011
  ▪ Comparison of Probabilistic and Deterministic Predictions of Time to Growth of Listeria monocytogenes as Affected by pH and Temperature in Food . Foodborne Pathogens and Disease. 8/1 141-148 2011
  ▪ Effect of olive powder and high hydrostatic pressure on the inactivation of Bacillus cereus spores in a reference medium. Foodborne Pathogens and Diseases. 8 (6), 681-685. 2011.
  ▪ Inactivation of human and murine Norovirus by high-pressure processing. Foodborne Pathogens and Diseases. 8 (2), 249-253. 2011.
  ▪ Effect of flavanol-rich cocoa powder on the growth of Bacillus cereus spores in reference media Archiv für Lebensmittelhygiene. 61/5 2010
  ▪ Monte Carlo simulation as a method to determine the critical factors affecting two strains of Escherichia coli inactivation kinetics by high hydrostatic pressure. Foodborne Pathogens and Diseases. 7(4) 459-466. 2010.
  ▪ Synergistic effect of High Hydrostatic Pressure and natural Antimicrobials on inactivation kinetics of Bacillus cereus in a mixture beverage of liquid whole egg and skim milk. Foodborne pathogens and diseases. 6, 649, 656, 2009.
  ▪ Sub-lethal damage in Cronobacter sakazakii cells after different pulsed electric field treatments in Infant Formula Milk. Food Control , 20, 1145- 1150, 2009
  ▪ Effect of olive powder on the growth /inhibitiom of Bacillus cereus. Foodborne Pathogens and Disease . 6/1, 33- 37, 2009
  ▪ Synergistic effect of Pulsed Electric Fields and CocoanOX 12% in the inactivation kinetics of Bacillus cereus in a mixed beverage of liquid whole egg and skim milk. International Journal of Food Microbiology. 130, 196 204, 2009
  ▪ Modeling Survival of High Hydrostatic Pressure Treated Stationary and Exponential Phase Listeria innocua cells. Innovative Food Science and Emerging Technologies.6/1, 1 -7, 2008.
  ▪ Pressure inactivation kinetics of Enterobacter sakazakii in infant formula milk.J. Food Protection 70 (10), 2281 2289, 2007
  ▪ PEF inactivation.of E sakazaki in buffered peptone water and Infant Formula Milk (IFM) International Dairy Journal. 17, 1441 1449. 2007
  ▪ Monte Carlo Simulation to establish the effect of pH and temperature and heating time on the final load of Bacillus stearothermophilus spores. European Food Research and Technology 224, 153 157, 2006
  ▪ Quality and Safety Aspects of PEF Application in Milk and Milk Products. Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition, 45:25 -47 2005
  ▪ Predicitve microbiology and its role in food safety systems. Novel Food Processing Technologies ISBN 0-8247-5333-X. Marcell Dekker 2005
  ▪ Variation of the spore population of a natural source strain of Bacillus cereus in the presence of inosine. Journal of Food Protection, : 65/5: :934- 938 2004
  ▪ Weibull distribution function based on an empirical mathematical model for inactivation of Echerichia coli by pulsed electric fields. Journal of Food Protection, 66/6:1007-1012 2003
  ▪ Empirical model building based on Weibull distribution to describe the joint effect of pH and temperature on the thermal resistance of Bacillus cereus in vegetable substrate International Journal of Food Microbiology 77:-147 -153 2002
  ▪ Exploring new mathematical approaches to microbiological food safety evaluation: An approach to more efficient Risk Assessment implementation. Dairy Food and Environmental Sanitation. 22:-18-23 2002
  ▪ Risk analysis of the thermal sterilization process. Analysis of factors affecting the thermal resistance of microorganisms. International Journal of Food Microbiology, 47, 51-57, 1999

  PUBLICATIONS AS MEMBER OF WORKING GROUPS OF EFSA

  ▪ Microbiological risks in infant formulae and follow-on formulae. EFSA Journal, 113, 1-35, 2004
  ▪ Bacillus cereus and other Bacillus spp in foodstuffs. EFSA Journal, 171, 1 – 48, 2005
  ▪ Campylobacter in animals and foodstuffs. EFSA Journal. 173, 1-105 2005
  ▪ Microbiological criteria and targets based on risk analysis. The EFSA Journal 462, 1-29, 2007.
  ▪ Opinion of the Scientific Panel on Biological Hazards on the request from the European Commission related to the evaluation of the efficacy of SAN-PEL® for use as an antimicrobial substance applied on carcasses of chickens, turkeys, quails, pigs, beef, sheep, goats and game and in washing the shells of eggs. The EFSA Journal 579, 6-61, 2007
  ▪ Overview of methods for source attribution for human illness from foodborne microbiological hazards. The EFSA Journal 764, 1-43, 2008
  ▪ Foodborne antimicrobial resistance as a biological hazard. The EFSA Journal 765, 1-87, 2008
  ▪ A quantitative microbiological risk assessment on Salmonella in meat: Source attribution for human salmonellosis from meat. The EFSA Journal 625, 1-32, 2008
  ▪ Scientific Opinion on the efficacy and microbiological safety of irradiation of food. EFSA Journal; 9(4):2103 [88 pp.], 2011

  PUBLICATIONS AS MEMBER OF SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE OF AECOSAN

  ▪ Informe del Comité Científico de la Agencia Española de Seguridad Alimentaria y Nutrición (AESAN) en relación a los estudios de vida útil para Listeria monocytogenes en determinados productos alimenticios. Número de referencia: Revista del Comité Científico de la AESAN Nº 14
  ▪ Informe del Comité Científico de la Agencia Española de Seguridad Alimentaria y Nutrición (AESAN) sobre medidas de prevención y recomendaciones aplicables para evitar posibles infecciones alimentarias por cepas de Escherichia coli verotoxigénicos/productores de toxinas Shiga/enterohemorrágicos (VTEC/STEC/EHEC). Número de referencia: Revista del Comité de la aesan Científico Nª 16
  ▪ Informe del Comité Científico de la Agencia Española de Seguridad Alimentaria y Nutrición (AESAN) sobre la aplicación de las radiaciones ionizantes para la higienización de la carne, los preparados cárnicos y los productos cárnicos. Número de referencia: Revista del Comité Científicode la aesan Nº 18
  ▪ Informe del Comité Científico de la Agencia Española de Seguridad Alimentaria y Nutrición (AESAN) en relación a una solicitud de evaluación inicial para la comercialización de la microalga marina Tetraselmis chuii en el marco del Reglamento (CE) nº 258/97 sobre Nuevos Alimentos y Nuevos Ingredientes Alimentarios. Número de referencia: AESAN- Revista del Comité Científico de la AESAN Nº 18
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  PUBLICATIONS AS INTERNATIONAL CONSULTOR

   Risk Assessment of Listeria monocytogenes in cheese. Ministerio de Protección Social, Republica de Colombia
   Risk Assessment of Staphylococcus aureus in non-industrialized prepared foods. Ministerio de Protección Social, Republica de Colombia
  BOOK AND BOOK CHAPTERS

  Application of Monte Carlo Simulation in Industrial Microbiological Expossure Assessment.
  Theory and Applications of Monte Carlo Simulations
  INTECH.
  INTECH, Open Access Publisher
  Croatia 2011
  ISBN: 978-953-307-427-6

  Quantitative assessment of citral antimicrobial potential at different temperatures
  Microbial pathogens and strategies for combating them: science, technology and education
  A. Mendez-Vilas. 2013
  Formatex Research Center

  Public and private standards and regulations concerning fruit juices
  Juice processing: Quality, safety and value-added opportunities. Pg 349-372
  ISBN: 978-1-4665-7733-6
  V. Falguera, A. Ibarz. 2014.
  CRC Press Taylor and Francis Group.