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Can Plasma Kill Bacteria on Food Packaging? Yes. Its Biggest Competitor Is Nothing.
Next in the "Can Plasma?" series: if plasma is so good at killing bacteria, why do we still have foodborne illnesses from packaged food? Three things: how plasma actually kills microbes, where it's already deployed (including NASA and Campbell's), and why it hasn't taken over the food packaging industry.
⏱️ Chapters
00:00 The question, and the paradox
00:24 3 things to cover: mechanism, deployment, and why it's not everywhere
00:38 What plasma is: highly ionized gas full of reactive species
00:58 ROS and RNS: peroxides, peroxynitrite, ozone, electronically excited oxygen
01:14 Electrons and…
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