Bacteriophages have been suggested as natural food preservatives as well as rapid detection materials for food-borne pathogens in various foods. Since Listeria monocytogenes-targeting phage cocktail (ListShield) was approved for applications in foods, numerous phages have been screened and experimentally characterized for phage applications in foods. A single phage and phage cocktail treatments...

*Correspondence: Ioannis S. Boziaris, Department of Ichthyology and Aquatic Environment, School of Agricultural Sciences, University of Thessaly, Fitoko street, 38446, Nea Ionia, Volos, Greece e-mail: [email protected] Marine environment affords a plethora of bioactive compounds with unique properties and remarkable potential for biotechnological applications. A lot of those compounds can be used...

Food preservatives play important role in today's food supplies that are used to prolong the self-life of products by protecting them from deterioration caused by micro-organisms. In this study, investigations were carried out to study the impacts of food preservatives like butylated hydroxytoluene, butylated hydroxyanisole, sorbic acid, propyl gallate and sodium nitrate. The effects of these p...

The objective of this review is to examine the available safety/toxicity literature on preservatives like olive polyphenols, microbial fermented tea, essential oil, parabens, and the micro organisms. Antimicrobial activities of microbial fermented tea are much less known than its health beneficial properties. These antimicrobial activities are generated by fermentation process with tea leaves a...