Rapid Analysis Methods and Food Safety Management Systems
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Analytical Methods".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2024) | Viewed by 173
Special Issue Editors
Interests: food safety; foodborne pathogens; microbiological criteria
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Interests: food microbiology; food-borne bacterial pathogens; rapid detection of foodborne pathogens; molecular methods in food microbiology
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Interests: food and environmental virology; transmission of pathogens; detection; food safety
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Microbiological analysis is an integral part of both food quality control and the management of food chain safety. The microbiological testing of foodstuffs complements the preventive approach to food safety activities, based mainly on the implementation and application of the concept of Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP).
Recent outbreaks associated with the consumption of a variety of contaminated foods have demonstrated the difficulty in effectively monitoring microbial contamination along the food chain. A further challenge has arisen as the capacity and capability of diagnostic laboratories have been recently highlighted in the WHO global strategy for food safety as requiring significant improvement.
Rapid and precise detection (and/or quantification) of foodborne pathogens, used appropriately along the food supply chain, is a powerful tool to prevent outbreaks of foodborne disease. The editors of this Special Issue have participated in several European-funded projects with the aim of developing new rapid methods for the end-user application.
This new Special Issue will create a bridge for connecting analysis with control strategies, and academia with end users, and therefore manuscripts concerning the following topics are welcome:
- New rapid methods for the identification and quantification of foodborne microorganisms (especially with regard to Food Safety Criteria);
- New rapid methods for the identification and quantification of indicator microorganisms (particularly with regard to process hygiene criteria);
- Reviews of rapid methods;
- Applications of rapid methods by end-users involved in official control;
- International evaluation or validation of rapid methods.
Dr. Dario De Medici
Dr. Elisabetta Delibato
Dr. Nigel Cook
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- microbiological rapid methods
- molecular methods
- microbiological criteria
- food safety management
- validation
- polymerase chain reaction
- isothermal amplification methods
