Short Title:
High Micro Foods
Responsible HRP Element:
Space Human Factors and Habitability
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Collaborating Org(s):
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| Space Human Factors Habitability (SHFH) Element |
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Funding Status:
Completed - Task completed and produced a deliverable
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Procurement Mechanism(s):
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Aims:
- To assess the current uses of live cultures in shelf stable foods
- To compare levels of microbial load in these foods/supplements to current requirements and assess additional risk, if necessary.
- To assess expected microbial load from bioregenerative produce and developed cleaning procedures.
- To investigate current literature and commercial operations to provide guidance in establishing microbiological requirements and testing methods for foods with high and diversified microbial concentrations.
All aims have been achieved. The findings are documented in a final report that was issued in August of 2011. The evidence contained in the report demonstrates a need for further research to determine the procedures necessary for growing and processing regenerative produce and development of specific cleaning methods to mitigate microbiological risks. The report also provides a comprehensive list of potential probiotic products, which should be evaluated to determine preferred probiotic formulations for spaceflight, and notes that research should also be conducted to determine the specific microbial testing procedures for those formulations and to assess the risk of adding the formulation to the food system.
Category:
Requirement
Subcategory:
Guidelines/Criteria
Description:
Deliverable is a report to assess risk of high micro foods in spaceflight, as well as potential benefits (ranges from potential probiotic benefit to concern over potential foodborne illness from bioregenerative system). Information will contribute to gap closure by informing microbiological requirements for final food system.
The evidence contained in report demonstrated a need for further research to determine procedures necessary for growing and processing regenerative produce and development of specific cleaning methods to mitigate microbiological risks. Report also provides comprehensive list of potential probiotic products, which should be evaluated to determine the preferred probiotic formulations for spaceflight, and notes that research should also be conducted to determine the specific microbial testing procedures for those formulations and to assess risk of adding formulations to food system. This report will serve as basis for future probiotic CM development.
Internal Customers:
Space Human Factors and Habitability
External Customers:
None
Category:
Risk Characterization, Quantification
Subcategory:
Evidence or Risk Characterization
Description:
Deliverable is report to assess risk of high micro foods in spaceflight, as well as potential benefits (ranges from potential probiotic benefit to concern over potential foodborne illness from bioregenerative system). Information will contribute to gap closure by informing microbiological requirements for the final food system.
Evidence contained in the report demonstrated need for futher research to determine procedures necessary for growing and processing regenerative produce and development of specific cleaning methods to mitigate microbiological risks. Report also provides a comprehensive list of potential probiotic products, which should be evaluated to determine the preferred probiotic formulations for spaceflight, and notes that research should aslo be conducted to determine the specific microbial testing procedures for those formulations and to assess the risk of adding formulations to the food system. Report will serve as basis for future probiotic CM development.
Internal Customers:
Space Human Factors and Habitability
External Customers:
Med Ops - Medical Operations
Is a Customer-Supplier Agreement (CSA) Required?
No