Food Safety through Antimicrobials Strategies
A special issue of Antibiotics (ISSN 2079-6382). This special issue belongs to the section "The Global Need for Effective Antibiotics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2024) | Viewed by 2274
Special Issue Editors
Interests: novel antimicrobial treatments; new antimicrobials; food pathogens; food safety
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Access to healthy and fresh food is necessary to promote sustainable and good health. Unsafe foods, which are usually toxic in nature, are the cause of numerous foodborne illnesses. These foodborne illnesses are caused by bacterial, viral, or fungal pathogens or chemical substances entering the body through contaminated food. These food safety issues are further exacerbated by a lack of food safety knowledge and appropriate treatment measures.
Many antimicrobials have been developed; however, the existence of antimicrobial-resistant pathogens including persister cells, spores and biofilms has made it difficult to eliminate these pathogens from the food chain. The major interest of food industry stakeholders lies in antimicrobial resistance in the food chain supply. With emerging risks, updates in antimicrobial strategies, knowledge transfer, and new treatment solutions are needed to address challenges to provide safe, nutritious, sustainable, and healthy food to consumers.
This Special Issue will promote the development of new antimicrobials and provide insights into latest developments in antimicrobial strategies in food-safety-related research. This Special Issue seeks manuscript submissions that help us to better understand antimicrobial resistance and improve our antimicrobial strategies and research to scale up food safety globally.
Dr. Apurva Patange
Prof. Dr. Michael Calcutt
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- food safety
- antimicrobials
- antimicrobial resistance
- foodborne pathogens
- public health
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