Milk and dairy products are commonly consumed by people of all age groups, especially children. Accordingly, milk is one of the major food sources in human nutrition because of its biochemical complexity, thus providing several important nutrients, including all essential amino acids. Confirmation of these nutritive benefits is the extensive and constant worldwide consumption of milk and dairy products. However, milk can be a vehicle to several types of biological, chemical, and physical contaminants, which may lead to serious health risks to the consumers. While there are some conventional techniques (such as filtration and heat treatment) to eliminate or reduce these three types of contaminants (physical, chemical, and biological), some of the newly introduced methods could improve the decontamination process of dairy products to achieve safe levels of the abovementioned contaminants. Although the application of some emerging techniques in reducing the levels of contaminates, e.g., high-pressure processing (HPP), has been extensively investigated through the literature, there are still important gaps regarding the employment of other available techniques alone or in combination with conventional techniques.

In this regard, the current Special Issue aims to collect all available data regarding emerging technologies in the combination of conventional techniques to improve the quality of dairy products to provide insights and further road maps for interested parties, including academics and industries as well as research institutes. For this purpose, the guest editors are inviting authors to submit original research, reviews (narrative and systematic), risk assessment studies, and short note articles.

Prof. Dr. Carlos Augusto Fernandes De Oliveira
Dr. Amin Mousavi Khaneghah
Guest Editors

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• non-thermal treatments
• high pressure processing (HPP)
• pulsed electric fields (PEFs)
• ultrasound, irradiation
• thermal treatments
• pasteurization
• sterilization
• emerging technologies
• decontamination
• fermentation