Increasing food safety of raw oysters with a simple and rapid post-harvest treatment utilizing probiotics

Objectives to address these goals are: a) the evaluation of marine probiotic strains against V. vulnificus in our immersion depuration setup. b) further optimization of the probiotic immersion treatment of V. vulnificus and V. parahaemolyticus to achieve overnight depuration, using combination treatments, different salinities and/or water temperatures. c) Conduct safety assessments of probiotics as food additives using a vertebrate model.?