Advances in Microbial Food Safety

Abstract

1. Genomic and Poteomic Approaches for Studying Bacterial Stress Responses SHIVANTHI ANANDAN 2. Overview of Rapid Methods for the Detection of Food Borne Pathogens and Toxins PETER FENG 4. IMMUNOLOGICAL BIOSENSOR-BASED METHODS 5. Quorum Sensing and Food Safety 6. Recent Developments in Pre-and Post-slaughter Intervention Strategies for Control of Meat Contamination 7. Thermal Treatments to Control Pathogens in Muscle Foods with Particular Reference to Sous-vide Products 8. Recent Advances in Food Irradiation 9. Nonthermal Inactivation of Escherichia coli in Fruit Juices Using Radio Frequency Electric Fields DAVID J. GEVEKE, CHRISTOPHER BRUNKHORST, PETER COOKE AND XUETONG FAN 10. High Hydrostatic Pressure Processing 11. Pulsed Electric Field Technology: Efficacy and Mmechanism 12. Antibiotic Activities of Plant Compounds Against Non-resistant and Antibiotic Resistant Foodborne Human Pathogens 13. Uses and Limits of Microbial Testing 14. Predicting the Growth of Microbial Pathogens in Food 15. Modeling the Behavior and Fate of Microbial Pathogens in Beef Processing Particle Reduction Operations 16. Approaches for Modeling Thermal Inactivation of Foodborne Pathogens 17. Computational Tools in Predictive Microbiology 18. Industry Perspectives on Performance Standards 19. Regulatory Perspective on Enhancing the Safety of Foods: Needs and Challenges 20. FDA's Imported and Domestic Produce Surveys 21. Food as a Weapon of Terrorism