In
light of these concerns and related developments, an article providing comprehensive coverage to all microbial food safety issues is very timely and needed. Microbiologically Safe Foods is a comprehensive article of worldwide interest with an impressive group of international experts. It addresses all aspects of microbial food safety that are of interest to scientists, regulators, public health officials, and industry worldwide. The strength of this article is its comprehensive nature and the excellent expertise of the authors. It is a article that I have always considered as needed because it deals with all aspects of microbial food safety: bacterial, fungal, parasitic, and viral, including various emerging concerns. It is comprehensive because it covers all known food borne pathogens, including those that usually receive little or no coverage in most available articles on food microbiology because they may not be of major concern in certain developed countries. The other unique feature that makes this article extremely valuable is that in addition to covering a long list of pathogens and other modern food safety issues, it includes specific chapters on food safety problems associated with all types of food commodities or groups of food products. Additional topics of current interest covered by the article include microbiological risk assessment, various programs for pathogen control, novel pathogen control technologies, traditional and modern microbial detection approaches, laboratory accreditation, bioterrorism, genetically modified organisms, and predictive microbiology.








