Controlling Salmonella with benzoic acid

Since the usage of antibiotics is increasingly under pressure, the search for alternatives is in full swing. For ?Salmonella infections, benzoic acid proves an alternative that achieves ?virtually the same results as antibiotics. The antimicrobial effects of organic acids on food-borne pathogenic bacteria have been well known since antiquity and result from their ability to create an acidic, and thus unfavourable, environment within which most pathogenic bacteria cannot live and thrive. This is