Innovative Processing and Food Safety: Chemical and Microbiological Hazards
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Quality and Safety".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 May 2024 | Viewed by 230
Special Issue Editors
Interests: food microbiology; food safety and shelf life studies
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Interests: seafood microbiology; seafood spoilage; seafood safety; molecular microbiology; antimicrobial resistance (AMR); seafood-borne diseases
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Innovative food processing has been driven forward by consumer preferences for convenient, tasty, and healthy food products. Conventional processing technologies often rely on thermal treatments that can cause nutrient deterioration and loss of sensory quality. Novel processing technologies, thermal and non-thermal, are developed to overcome these challenges, and the technologies are often combined, an approach known as hurdle technology.
Recent trends originating from a sustainability perspective, e.g., the use of food by-products and novel raw materials for food and packaging materials, also challenge food safety. Risk assessment provides a meaningful approach and should be utilised to define risk-based decisions in food processing.
This special Issue aims to provide an in-depth insight into the food safety challenges we face regarding innovative food processing, novel food and packaging materials. Authors are encouraged to submit original studies and high-quality reviews on the safety aspects of novel food and process technologies, covering chemical and microbiological hazards and novel approaches to monitoring and overcoming them.
Dr. Anita Jakobsen
Dr. Foteini Parlapani
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- novel preservation techniques
- hurdle technology
- foodborne pathogens
- novel food
- microbial communities
- microbial and chemical hazards
- novel packaging materials
- challenge studies
- risk assesment
