Completed project
Improving safety of vegetable produce through on-farm sanitation, using electrolysed oxidising (EO) water (VG15068)
Publication date: December 5, 2018
Delivery Partner: University of South Australia
This investment, which ran from 2017 to 2020, tested whether electrolysed oxidising or ‘EO’ water can be used to increase the quality of vegetable irrigation water. It found that under certain conditions the technology can be used to reduce microbial contamination, and therefore enhance the safety of fresh produce.
The key findings from the research were:
You can read more about this electricity-charged sanitisation approach, and how it could benefit the Australian vegetable industry, in this news article from Hort Innovation that was released when the project was first announced in 2017.
This project was a strategic levy investment in the Hort Innovation Vegetable Fund
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