Foodborne Pathogens: Prevention, Control and Detection Strategies

Dear Colleagues,

Foodborne pathogens have been responsible for countless outbreaks of disease among humans, with significant impacts on public health and the economy, and with some of them possessing a stark mortality rate. Food safety is crucial to protect consumers from health risks related to foodborne illnesses. Many factors affect the processing of safe food, and these factors span the entire process, from processing to packaging. These include agricultural practices, worker practices, and the use of preventive controls during processing and preparation of the food. This makes it necesary to develop innovative and successful interventions to improve the prevention and control of potential foodborne pathogen contamination occurring during food processing and manufacturing. The detection of foodborne pathogens in foods is also a critical point in determining and assessing the risk they pose to final consumers.

The aim of this Special Issue is to provide a collection of articles related all the strategies used to prevent, control and detect the occurrence of foodborne pathogens in foods to avoid their survival, multiplication, and entry into the human food chain. As Guest Editors of this Special Issue, we invite you to submit research or review articles related to prevention from entering, control of and detection of foodborne pathogens in the human food chain.

This current Special Issue is addressed to microbiology professionals, specifically to food microbiologists, clinical and veterinary microbiologists, as well as to researchers and academics involved in food microbiology- and food safety-related research.

Dr. Jose Manuel Silvan
Dr. Adolfo J. Martinez-Rodriguez
Guest Editors

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