Study of Microbiological Safety in the Food Chain

Dear Colleagues,

The complex agri-food chain in different cultures may be accompanied with specific and unknown microbial hazards and risk. Therefore, strict microbiological risk assessment of emerging and novel pathogens in animal–human–environment interactions is strongly needed today.

The microbiological safety of food relies on the effectiveness of specific hygienic procedures and technological processes. The concept of food safety has changed in recent years from a hazard- to a risk-based approach coupled with targeted preventive interventions along the food chain. The process from food production to consumption may be very challenging from a microbiological point of view. In that sense, this Special Issue on the “Study of Microbiological Safety in the Food Chain” will give a broad view to available tools and process interventions to combat traditional and potential microbiological hazards within the whole agri-food chain.

Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:

- Food safety assurance systems;

- Epidemiology of foodborne pathogens;

- Microbiological risk assessment in food safety;

- On-farm food safety;

- Emerging pathogens in food chain;

- Food processing hygiene and microbiological food safety;

- Effect of food processing methods on foodborne pathogens;

- Reduction of hazardous microbial metabolites in food;

- Thermal and non-thermal inactivation of microbes in food;

- Challenge tests;

- Bio-preservation and hurdle technology;

- Beneficial microbes in food;

- Antimicrobial capacity of natural compounds in food;

- Traditional and industrial food production: microbiological risk.

Dr. Nevijo Zdolec
Guest Editor

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• Food chain
• Hygiene and technology
• Emerging foodborne pathogens
• Toxic microbial metabolites
• Risk assessment
• Food processing
• Interventions
• Microbial inactivation
• Beneficial microbes
• Natural compounds