Predictive Microbiology: New Trends of Food Safety and Quality in Food Processing Systems
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Microbiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 2023
Special Issue Editors
Interests: food safety; food microbiology; predictive modeling; foodborne pathogens; environmental monitoring; traceability; supply chain; risk analysis
Interests: food microbiology; modeling microbial responses in food; quantitative microbial risk assessment (QMRA); food safety
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This edition aims to showcase the recent developments in predictive modelling for the enhancement of food processing systems' safety and quality. The predictive microbial models can be used to develop precise interventions for the control of pathogenic and spoilage microorganisms in food products. This edition will focus on predictive models, including kinetic, probability, empirical, and mechanistic models. By leveraging predictive modelling, food processors can drastically reduce the time required for challenge studies, enabling rapid identification of potential foodborne contamination and solutions.
Therefore, we are pleased to invite researchers to contribute to a Special Issue on Predictive Microbiology: New Trends of Food Safety and Quality in Food Processing Systems. We are calling for papers on the following research topics with a focus on predictive modelling:
- Evaluating the impact of biotic and abiotic factors such as temperature, pH, moisture, and nutrient availability on the survival, growth, and inactivation of pathogenic and spoilage microorganisms;
- Quantitative risk assessment techniques;
- Investigation of thermal and non-thermal intervention technologies to reduce the risks associated with the microbial contamination in foods;
- Development and validation of primary, secondary, and tertiary predictive models;
- Exploring the potential of machine learning techniques in predictive microbiology;
- Case studies on practical applications of predictive models to estimate food safety and quality.
Dr. Priyanka Gupta
Guest Editor Assistant
Dr. Abhinav Mishra
Dr. Vijay K. Juneja
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- predictive modelling
- antimicrobial interventions
- risk assessment
- combination models
- pathogen control
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