One of the most important concerns for food industry is safety. Predictive microbiology is the application of mathematical models to describe microbial behavior in order to prevent food spoilage as well as food-borne illness. Because of complexity of microbial behavior and food systems, predictive microbiology presents some limitations. System dynamics could be a useful alternative and compleme...

Department of Nutrition, Food Science and Food Technology, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Department of Microbiology and Biochemistry of Dairy Products, Instituto de Productos Lácteos de Asturias-CSIC, Villaviciosa, Spain, 3 Laboratory of Food Microbiology, Department of Microbial and Molecular Systems, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 4 Institut National de la Recherche Agronomiqu...

2010 Acknowledgement The study embraces the last two decades I worked for the Institute of Food Research, UK. For the opportunity to become a research scientist, I am indebted to Dr Terry Roberts, the former head of the Microbiology Department there, who decided that further advances in food microbiology was impossible without a dedicated mathematician.

Your submissions to this Special Issue "Food Microbiology and Safety" of Foods-a new open access journal-are welcome. We understand there are no foodborne illness-free zones in the world. Therefore, a proper understanding of foodborne pathogens and the factors that impact their growth, survival and pathogenesis would equip us with tools to ensure global food safety. This Special Issue publishes...

In recent years, the areas of Bio-Microelectromechanical Systems (BioMEMS) and nanotechnology have gained a high level of prominence and have become almost inseparable with biological applications including detection, diagnostics, therapeutics and tissue engineering. This article reviews some of the current state-of-the-art interdisciplinary research from these fields, especially focusing on ra...