Production, Safety Parameters and Functional Ingredients of Animal Source Foods
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Quality and Safety".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2026 | Viewed by 34
Special Issue Editors
Interests: food microbiology; food safety; food inspection; meat science; dairy science; risk analysis
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Interests: food microbiology; food safety; dairy science; cheese; risk analysis
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Growing interest by consumers in maintaining health enhances the importance of assuring safety and quality of animal origin foods. This role is played mainly by producers, who can combine production technologies, food composition and hygiene procedures. The application of innovative production techniques, combining inhibitory effect and low impact on the products characteristics, is a promising field. This approach can be combined with the use of functional ingredients for both safety and nutritional purpose, obtaining products commercialized a “functional foods” or “nutraceuticals”, whose market is increasing.
Aiming to evaluate health risk related to food consumption, deep ad complete safety assessments should be performed, in particular when new technologies are applied or new ingredients are included. Thus, toxicity, compositional, and microbiological analyses are demanded, with particular attention to the efficiency, reliability and applicability of the technical approaches used.
Dr. Erica Tirloni
Dr. Simone Stella
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- new technologies
- functional ingredients
- food safety
- food production
- animal food origin
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