A meeting on food safety entitled “Food Safety: Is It All ‘“Pie-in-theSky?’“was held on June 19, 2003, in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Because Northern Ireland has a largely agrarian economy with a strong agricultural food sector, highlighting the importance of safe food production was timely. The meeting was organized by the Northern Ireland Microbiology Discussion Group (NIMDG) and was well att...

E. RAHIMI, H. MOMTAZ, A. SHARIFZADEH, A. BEHZADNIA, M. S. ASHTARI, S. ZANDI ESFAHANI, M. RIAHI & M. MOMENI 5 Departments of Food Hygiene; Department of Microbiology; 4 Undergraduate student of Veterinary Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Graduate student of Food Sciences and Technology, College of Agriculture; Food Research Center, Shahrekord Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shahrekord,...

International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN:2319-7692(Print), ISSN:2319-7706(Online) is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal with reputable academics experts as members its Editorial Board. The aims to publish all the latest outstanding research articles. Review letters in areas major importance techniques microbiology applied publishes high quality review artic...

K. De Reu*, W. Messens, K. Grijspeerdt, M. Heyndrickx, B. Rodenburg, M. Uyttendaele, L. Herman Institute for Agricultural and Fisheries Research (ILVO), Technology and Food Science Unit, Brusselsesteenweg 370, 9090 Melle, Belgium Animal Breeding and Genomics Centre, Wageningen University, P.O. Box 338, 6700 AH Wageningen, The Netherlands 3 Department of Food Safety and Food Quality, Laboratory ...

s 160th Meeting 26–29 March 2007 University of Manchester Intracellular life of microbes Plenary session 3 Microbial transport systems Cells & Cell Surfaces Group session 7 Bacterial colonization, latency and host adaptation Microbial Infection Group / Clinical Microbiology Group joint session 9 Blood-borne virus infections Clinical Virology Group session 13 Training of medical and dental stude...

Traditional microbiological methods tend to be labor-intensive and time-consuming. Rapid and novel methods in microbiological tests provide more sensitive, precise and reproducible results compared with conventional methods. In microbiology, the most rapid testing methods belong to the field of biotechnology such as PCR, ELISA, ATP bioluminescence and etc. Nevertheless impedance microbiology, b...