Food Safety and Preservation. Modern Biological Approaches to Improving Consumer Health

Table of Contents

Section 1: Advanced tools in food safety and hazard detection 1. A Critical Appraisal on Different Food Safety and Quality Management Tools to Accomplish Food Safety 2. Food Safety: Benefits of Contamination Control in Consumers Health  3. Preemptive and Proactive strategies for Food Control and Biosecurity 4. Validation of Analytical Methods for the Assessment of Hazards in Food 5. The Assay of Pesticide in Foods Using Electrochemical Sensors 6. Multiway Calibration Approaches for Quality Control of Food Samples 7. Biocontrol as Efficient Tool for Food Control and Biosecurity

Section 2: Microbial contamination and emerging food-borne diseases 8. Foodborne Diseases and Responsible Agents 9. Challenges in Emerging Food-borne Diseases 10. Opportunistic Foodborne Pathogens 11. Food Poisoning and Intoxication A Global Leading Concern for Human Health 12. Staphylococcal Food Poisoning 13. Campylobacter: An Important Food Safety Issue 14. Food Contamination: From Food Degradation to Food-borne Diseases 15. A review on Implications of Interaction between Human Pathogenic Bacteria and Host on Food Quality and Disease 16. Novel Strategies for the Reduction of Microbial Degradation of Foods

Section 3: New preservation approaches to increase food safety 17. Relevance and Legal Frame in Novel Food Preservation Approaches for Improving Food Safety and Risks Assessment 18. The Current Approaches and Challenges of Biopreservation 19. Modern Preservation Tools through Packaging for High Hydrostatic Pressure Processing  20. Natural Food Preservatives Against Microorganisms

Authors

Alexandru Mihai Grumezescu Assistant Professor, Department of Science and Engineering of Oxide Materials and Nanomaterials, Faculty of Applied Chemistry and Materials Science and Faculty of Medical Engineering, Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania. Dr. Grumezescu is Assistant Professor at the Department of Science and Engineering of Oxide Materials and Nanomaterials, in the Faculty of Applied Chemistry and Materials Science, with a second affiliation to the Faculty of Medical Engineering, at the Politehnica University of Bucharest in Romania. He is an experienced and oft-published researcher and editor in the field of nano and biomaterials, and he is the Editor-in-Chief of three journals: Biointerface Research in Applied Chemistry, Letters and Applied NanoBioScience, and Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Bulletin. He also serves as editor or guest editor for several notable journals. Dr. Grumezescu has published 150 peer-reviewed papers, 20 book chapters, 6 co-authored books and 11 edited books. Alina Maria Holban Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Biology, University of Bucharest, Romania. Alina-Maria Holban is a lecturer in Microbiology and Immunology, at the Faculty of Biology, University of Bucharest; and associate researcher at the University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania. Her primary area of research is the development of bionanomaterials with antimicrobial applications. Dr. Holban has published 75 papers in peer-reviewed journals, 42 conference/symposia proceedings, and has edited more than 21 edited books.