Food protection & safety covers articles concerning the safe production, storage and consumption of food.
Traceability regularly crops up as a factor in food safety simply because there is an escalating rise in the number of public health cases associated […]
Polylysine is an effective antimicrobial in its own right but in combination with modified atmospheric packaging (CO2 as the gas) or with other antimicrobials, and […]
Chitosan is rapidly developing as an edible coating to protect highly perishable fruits, meats and fish. It is a linear cationic polysaccharide composed of randomly […]
Acrylamide is a toxic agent – a potent neurotoxin in fact which surprised many food analysts when it was first identified in foods a number […]
Natural antimicrobials are commonly being preferred by consumers over chemical preservatives according to ingredient trend studies (Smid and Gorris, 1999). Natural antimicrobials are regularly being […]
Staphylococcus aureus is a serious and common foodborne pathogen – a bacterium widely found in the food supply chain (Tirado and Schmidt, 2001; Loir et al., […]
♥ Vibrio parahaemolyticus is a foodborne pathogen and probably the leading cause of acute gastroenteritis worldwide. The bacteria is an anaerobe that is described as […]
The creation of a safe food, especially a baby food, relies on processing to completely destroy harmful micro-organisms or at least reduce their levels to […]
Validation, monitoring and verification are all key stages in successfully bringing a new food product safely to market. How are they defined? NACMCF2 (National Advisory […]
Next year, 2016, is the year of the Brazilian Olympics. It pays to see what exotic fruits are available from a country with the richest […]
Recent scandals involving adulteration of critical food products with dire health consequences need look no further than the addition of melamine to infant milk powder. […]
Cronobacter sakazakii otherwise formerly known as Enterobacter sakazakii is an opportunist pathogen mainly of infants and young children. It is a bacterium that causes rare […]
Bisphenol (BPA) has been a problematic material for a number of years following its appearance in food and drink products in contact with plastics. The […]
Yersinia enterocolitica is a nasty food poisoning organism which causes severe illness and is a major issue for refrigerated foods. Yersinosis And It Symptoms The […]
♦ Campylobacter found on 70% of chickens sold in supermarkets. ♦ 280 thousand people suffer campylobacter food poisoning annually. ♦ About one of third of […]
Methanol, also known as methyl alcohol and wood alcohol, is a primary alcohol with the chemical formula CH3OH. It is a highly toxic alcohol commonly […]
Botulism is thankfully one of those rare food poisoning events but it is still a fatal condition. Clostridium botulinum is the causative agent which releases […]
We often think of Bacillus bacteria as being our friend in food processing with the type of enzymes that are produced for producing sugar, various […]
It’s not a pleasant experience seeing insects flying out of boxes of food but it happens all to frequently. One insect, The Indian Meal Moth […]
Sunset Yellow FCF (E110) which is also known as Orange Yellow S, or C.I. 15985 has been a food colour of long standing in all sorts of foods […]
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