Alistag, a new coating agent for aging cheese and hams.

Aging rooms of dry-cured ham and cheese are subject to the development of mold and arthropods, above all mites, which cause the erosion of the external part of these food products, reducing their surface to dust and determining their progressive degradation. This work is meant to give the results of an experiment carried out to test the level of protection supplied by Alistag, a coating agent based on Gluconodeltalactone, on a typical Sicilian cheese . Alistag was applied by nebulization and by immersion.