About the Book: Food Microbiology 2nd Revised andEnlarged Edition
Food microbiology have been characterized by multidisciplinary interests that
have confirmed the increasing amount of evidence that has implicated
microorganisms in different areas, including food technology, food safety and
hygiene, food poisoning, food genomics, and, more generally, food omics,
functional foods, and probiotics, besides emerging methodologies that have been
applied to food analyses. Probiotics research and innovation in functional food
production deserves particular attention. The book has been divided into 20
chapters which mainly cover history and development of food microbiology, role
of microorganisms in food, effect of food processing and preservation on
microorganisms, bacterial food poisoning, non-bacterial illness,