Plasma Sterilization of Anthrax Pathogen in Water Mist

Miyazaki prefecture in Japan promotes agricultural food industry in recent year. One of the activities is promotion of agricultural and livestock products. However, Miyazaki prefecture is very far from large-scale consumption areas such as Tokyo and Osaka. To keep freshness of agricultural and livestock products during their transport is a serious problem from a viewing of putrefaction due to blight outbreak. Apple Mango has been a very famous and representative product in Miyazaki prefecture and it has successfully continued to make a good profit. However, fruit rot disease such as Anthrax Pathogen after harvest is serious [1] [2] [3]. Therefore, a sterilization technique is strongly required. We here generated the dielectric barrier discharge plasma in water mist, which may possible to sterilize the whole of greengrocery because of its high diffusibility. We examined fungicidal activity against Colletotrichum sp.