Feature Reviews on Food Microbiology

Dear Colleagues,

We would like to invite you to submit comprehensive review papers to this Special Issue dealing with all subjects related to food microbiology, hygiene, and safety. Review papers can range from state-of-the-art topics to novel advances and trends, including, but not limited, to the following:

• the study of the microbial spoilage of food;
• foodborne pathogenic microorganisms, their virulence factors and pathogenicity mechanisms, epidemiology, and risk assessment;
• fermented foods, their microbial ecology, food microbiomes;
• the quantitative assessment (prediction) of the shelf-life of foods under their relevant conditions of production, processing, transport, and preservation;
• microorganisms of possible technological interest in the production/processing of foods, probiotics, prebiotics, symbiotics, and postbiotics;
• novel sustainable methods for the mitigation of harmful microorganisms in food (e.g., biopreservation, quorum quenching, ozone, hurdle technology, etc.);
• advanced methods to control, monitor, ensure, and improve the hygiene of food production, processing, preservation, and consumption environment, including the study of biofilms;
• fast and reliable methods for the isolation, identification, characterization, and quantification of food microorganisms (e.g., genomic and metagenomic approaches, biosensors, nanodevices);
• fast and reliable, either invasive or non-invasive, methods for the control, monitoring, and manipulation of the microbial quality of food, including AI and machine learning approaches.

Dr. Efstathios Giaouris
Dr. Foteini Parlapani
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-anonymized peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Foods is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2900 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.