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Survival rates and transfer potential measurements of Salmonella Typhimurium and Vibrio cholerae colonising plastic mulch onto basil and spinach salad leaves
This dataset contains experimental survival rate and transfer potential measurements of two known human pathogens, bacteria Salmonella Typhimurium and Vibrio cholerae, on plastic mulch and ready-to-eat crop plants. Colony forming units (CFUs) were used to measure persistence time of each pathogen on the mulch, and quantify the transfer of each pathogen from the plastic mulch to the surface of spinach and basil leaves. Samples were measured on days 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 10 and 14, over a total period of 14 days. Destructive sampling methods were used to collect samples from the plastic and leaf surface, with negative control leaves also sampled at each time point. This dataset was created as part of a study investigating the risk of pathogen growth in agricultural environments using plastic mulch, and is supported by the National Environmental Research Council (NE/V005847/1). Full details about this nonGeographicDataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/a514a386-18d7-4925-a3d4-fb5a2922e135
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- Date (Publication)
- 2025-05-02
- Citation identifier
- https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/a514a386-18d7-4925-a3d4-fb5a2922e135
- Citation identifier
- doi: / 10.5285/a514a386-18d7-4925-a3d4-fb5a2922e135
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Woodford, L., White, H., Fellows, R., Ormsby, M., Quilliam, R. (2025). Survival rates and transfer potential measurements of Salmonella Typhimurium and Vibrio cholerae colonising plastic mulch onto basil and spinach salad leaves. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/a514a386-18d7-4925-a3d4-fb5a2922e135
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role University of Stirling Woodford, L.
Point of contact University of Stirling Woodford, L. Author University of Stirling
White, H.
Author University of Stirling
Fellows, R.
Author University of Stirling Ormsby, M.
Author University of Stirling
Quilliam, R.
Author University of Stirling
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Owner NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Custodian NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Publisher
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Human Health and Safety
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- Keywords
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- Environmental risk
- Pollution
- Agriculture
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plastisphere
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human pathogens
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ready-to-eat-crops
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phyllosphere
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- Other restrictions
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- no limitations
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If you reuse this data, you should cite: Woodford, L., White, H., Fellows, R., Ormsby, M., Quilliam, R. (2025). Survival rates and transfer potential measurements of Salmonella Typhimurium and Vibrio cholerae colonising plastic mulch onto basil and spinach salad leaves. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/a514a386-18d7-4925-a3d4-fb5a2922e135
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
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- Environment
- Begin date
- 2023-10-01
- End date
- 2023-11-01
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Name Version Comma-separated values (CSV)
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
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- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/a514a386-18d7-4925-a3d4-fb5a2922e135 Download the data
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/a514a386-18d7-4925-a3d4-fb5a2922e135.zip Supporting information
- Hierarchy level
- Non geographic dataset
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nonGeographicDataset
Conformance result
- Title
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Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
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Persistence experiments, examining the survival of S. Typhimurium and V. cholerae were set up by placing spinach and basil leaves in petri dishes and adding plastic mulch with a biofilm containing each pathogen to the leaf surface. Over time samples were destructively sampled by removing the plastic, washing the leaf surface and cutting a circle from the leaf. These three sections (plastic, wash and cut leaf) were then resuspended and plated on to selevctive media. Any surviving bacteria were quantified using CFUs. Negative control leaves with no plastics or bacteria were analysed at each time point.
Metadata
- File identifier
- a514a386-18d7-4925-a3d4-fb5a2922e135 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- 8859 Part 1
- Hierarchy level
- Non geographic dataset
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nonGeographicDataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-11-13T16:18:54
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
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2.3
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Point of contact
