Information systems are concerned with data capture, storage, analysis and retrieval. In the
context of food safety management they are vital to assist decision making in a short time …

In recent decades, the demand for ready‐to‐eat (RTE) food items prepared by the food
catering sector has increased together with the value of cook‐serve, cook‐chill, and cook …

Predictive microbiology is considered in the context of the conference theme “chance,
innovation and challenge”, together with the impact of quantitative approaches on food …

The risk assessment study of Listeria monocytogenes in ready-to-eat foods conducted by the
US Food and Drug Administration is an example of an extensive quantitative microbiological …

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the chill chain in school catering by monitoring
time–temperature profiles. Chilled ready-to-eat foods have been chosen as subject of this …

Mathematical description of the behavior of bacterial foodborne pathogens and concepts of
risk assessment were first applied to spore-forming bacteria and specially to Clostridium …

Significant progress has been made in the last few years towards our understanding of the
epidemiology, pathogenicity, and control of foodborne disease, including food poisoning …

Perhaps it is as a consequence of more than 30 years' research on predictive microbiology
and the numerous reviews and book chapters on the subject that the prospect of preparing …

The objective of the probabilistic data analysis presented in this paper was to enable the
thermal process to be set on actual data rather than on generic or conservative rules. The …

Spores of foodborne pathogens can survive traditional thermal processing schedules used
in the manufacturing of processed meat products. Heat-activated spores can germinate and …