Foodborne Toxins: Advanced Detection and Toxicity

Dear Colleagues,

Foodborne diseases are a major cause of human morbidity and mortality. It is a global concern that affects public health and places undue economic burdens on consumers as well as significant economic losses for farmers, manufacturers, and retailers. In many cases, the production of toxins and subsequent intoxication of the host after oral ingestion of contaminated foods leads to the development of disease. However, the pathogeneses of toxins produced by microbes, plants or fungi are not well understood and methods for toxin control and prevention are lacking or can be improved. Recent foodborne outbreaks have also provided new insights into newly described bacterial toxins, which are not typically regarded as foodborne pathogens. Therefore, to ensure a safe food supply, advances in diagnostic detection technologies that are rapid, sensitive, and portable are critical. New methods to control production, and inactivate foodborne toxins from known and unknown pathogens in a variety of complex matrices, must be developed to aid food processors and regulatory agencies to adequately monitor the safety of our food. In addition, the development of new countermeasures, such as drugs or vaccines against such toxins, would help combat foodborne intoxications. This Special Issue of “Foodborne toxins: Advanced detection and future prevention” will focus on the pathogenesis of foodborne toxins, advances in detection approaches, new methods of toxin control or therapeutic interventions and new vaccines or countermeasures against of the foodborne toxins. Review and research papers describing established and novel concepts are welcome.

Dr. Christina C. Tam
Dr. Xiaohua He
Dr. Jong Heon Kim
Dr. Kirkwood Land
Dr. Mikhail Shilman
Guest Editors

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• foodborne toxins
• foodborne pathogens
• bacterial toxins
• foodborne intoxications