Technology is being developed to handle vast amounts of complex data from diverse
sources. The terms" Big Data" and" Decision Support Systems"(DSS) refer to computerised …

Purpose Following the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development, the main challenge for
the agrofood sector is to innovate food production, offering sustainable, smart and safe …

Microbial food spoilage is responsible for a considerable amount of waste and can cause
food-borne diseases in humans, particularly in immunocompromised individuals and …

Listeria monocytogenes has been implicated in numerous outbreaks and related deaths of
listeriosis. In food production, L. monocytogenes occurs in raw food material and above all …

The effectiveness of antibiotics has been challenged by the increasing frequency of
antimicrobial resistance (AR), which has emerged as a major threat to global health. Despite …

Aspirations to farm 'better'may fall short in practice due to constraints outside of farmers'
control. Yet farmers face proliferating pressures to adopt practices that align with various …

Genomics and related tools are beginning to have a tremendous impact on food safety by
allowing for a more precise approach to pathogen detection, characterization, and …

Repeated Listeria outbreaks particularly associated with Ready-To-Eat (RTE) delicatessen
meat products have been reported annually at global level. The most frequent scenario that …

Lactobacillus curvatus 54M16 produced bacteriocins sak X, sak T α, sak T β and sak P. The
aim of this study was to investigate the anti-listerial activity of the bacteriocins-producing …

The prevention of foodborne diseases is one of the main objectives of health authorities. To
this effect, analytical techniques to detect and/or quantify the microbiological contamination …