Veterinary Public Health and Microbial Food Safety

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue focuses on the intersection of animal agriculture and microbial food safety.

Microbial foodborne pathogens are an important cause of morbidity and mortality in humans worldwide. Animals and agriculture ecosystems play an important role in the exposure to foodborne microbial hazards and can be a source of pathogens in food products of animal origin (e.g. nontyphoidal Salmonella, Campylobacter, Listeria monocytogenes, E.coli O157, and enteric viruses) and also through the faecal contamination of plant-derived foods, fresh produce and water. To enhance microbial food safety, control measures should be considered at both the pre-harvest level and subsequent stages of the production-to-consumption chain, i.e. ‘from farm-to-fork’.

This Special Issue will focus on advancements in microbial foodborne pathogen detection, the farm-to-fork surveillance of biological hazards, epidemiology and hazard characterisation at pre-harvest and post-harvest levels, challenges to the microbial safety of food of animal origin, and interactions to emphasize research and capacity building of food safety and veterinary public health scientists. In addition, this issue will also highlight the One Health approach to food safety, discussing the successes and challenges of working towards a One Health approach to microbial food safety, and antimicrobial resistance, prevention and response.

Dr. Ihab Habib
Guest Editor

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• Surveillance of microbiological hazards in animal agriculture
• Campylobacter and Salmonella
• Meat and dairy safety assurance
• Microbial hazard characterization in fresh produce and plant foods
• Antimicrobial resistance spread from farm-to-fork
• Integrated food safety management systems
• One Health approach to food safety
• Advances in foodborne pathogen detection