Foodborne illness of microbial origin is the most serious food safety problem in the United States. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that 79% of outbreaks between 1987 and 1992 were bacterial; improper holding temperature and poor personal hygiene of food handlers contributed most to disease incidence. Some microbes have demonstrated resistance to standard methods of prepa...

To identify and prioritize effective food safety interventions, it is critical not only to identify the pathogens responsible for illness, but also to attribute cases of foodborne disease to the specific food vehicle responsible. A wide variety of such “food attribution” approaches and data are used around the world, including the analysis of and extrapolation from outbreak and other surveillan...

Safety and quality are significant challenges for food; namely, safety represents a big threat all over the world and is one of the most important goal to be achieved in both Western Society and Developing Countries. Wine safety mainly relies upon some metabolites and many of them are of microbial origin. The main goal of this review is a focus on two kinds of compounds (biogenic amines and myc...

Public health implications of microbial food safety and foodborne diseases in developing countries F ood is one of the most important transmission routes of diseases globally due to microbial contaminations (1). Global emergence and re-emergence of foodborne pathogens have made microbio-logical safety and quality of food of public and health important (1, 2). Globally, more than 250 sources of ...

background: to increase safety of patients and staffs in hospitals, safety standards and regulations must be considered. this study was conducted to evaluate safety conditions in hospitals affiliated to kerman university of medical sciences.   methods: this cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted in various wards and units of four hospitals affiliated to kerman university of medical sci...

As existing technologies are refined and novel microbial inactivation technologies are developed, there is a growing need for a metric that can be used to judge equivalent levels of hazard control stringency to ensure food safety of commercially sterile foods. A food safety objective (FSO) is an output-oriented metric that designates the maximum level of a hazard (e.g., the pathogenic microorg...

Consumers and industry experts frequently have negative perceptions of most chemical preservatives. Although people concede that they cannot resolve global food waste issues without preservatives, prefer products Numerous emerging technologies is now surpassing conventional methods for mitigating microbial deterioration in response to consumer demand fundamental health safety considerations, in...

Quantitative microbial risk analysis modelling is increasingly being used in food safety as a tool to evaluate health risks. Accurately forming such models can be very difficult due to the uncertainty in the available data. Second order Monte Carlo simulation allows for the inclusion of this uncertainty and separates it from the variability incorporated in the model. This modelling process is i...

The different factors (environmental, microbial contamination, handling procedures with game, post mortal changes of game meat) influenced on safety and quality of farmed and hunted wild game meat are described. The emphasis is given on residues of contaminants: risk chemical elements (Cd, Pb, Hg), mycotoxins (aflatoxin, ochratoxin, trichothecene), veterinary drug residues (sulfanilamid, amprol...