Cereal Chem 38:529 - 535.  |  VIEW ARTICLE

Effect of Some Volatile Chemicals on the Microbial Spoilage of Moist Kafir Corn (Andropogon sorghum) under Airtight Storage.

K. S. Srinavasan and S. K. Majumder. Copyright 1961 by the American Association of Cereal Chemists, Inc. 

Kafir corn at 20% moisture was fumigated with methyl bromide and ethylene dibromide and hermetically stored for 60 days at 25-29 C. Molds and bacteria were destroyed. Changes in fat acidity, water-soluble acidity, reducing sugars, amino nitrogen, and weight/volume ratio were retarded. Similar results were obtained with chloropicrin and ethylene oxide. The possibility of cold sterilization of moist grain and storage under aseptic conditions in hermetic storage is discussed.