Biopreservation as an Alternative Strategy for Food Safety, Biofilm Inactivation and Antimicrobial Resistance: Challenges and Future Perspectives 2.0

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue is the continuation of our previous Special Issue “Biopreservation as an Alternative Strategy for Food Safety, Biofilm Inactivation and Antimicrobial Resistance: Challenges and Future Perspectives”

Today, a strong debate regarding the safety aspects of chemical preservatives and a growing consumer concern associated with a high pressure on food manufacturers to adopt natural alternatives is witnessed. Natural products isolated by plants, along with beneficial microbes and/or their metabolic products, have attracted scientific and industrial interest as promising biopreservatives to control spoilage and ensure microbial safety in food. Additionally, it seems that they have a great potential in rendering microbial biofilms inactive, considering the antimicrobial resistance issues that probably constitute the most serious public health challenge of our time.

In this vein, the Special Issue aims to summarize recent achievements and current inventions in the field and present future perspectives in applications of natural products and functional microorganisms and their metabolites as potent biopreservatives in food preservation, biofim inactivation, and pathogen control.

Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:

• Antimicrobial efficiency of natural products and functional microbial cultures;
• Food biopreservation;
• Biopreservatives as a potent solution to antimicrobial resistance;
• Legal aspects on the use of natural substances in the food industry.

Dr. Yiannis Kourkoutas
Prof. Dr. Eugenia Bezirtzoglou
Dr. Christina Tsigalou
Dr. Gregoria Mitropoulou
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Applied Microbiology is an international peer-reviewed open access quarterly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1000 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• antimicrobials
• biopreservation
• microbial biofilms
• disinfectants
• antimicrobial resistance
• natural products
• essential oils
• plant extracts
• functional microorganisms