IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/gam/jijerp/v19y2022i12p7441-d841286.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Microbial Contamination and Public Health: An Overview

Author

Listed:
  • Alessia Tropea

    (Department of Research and Internationalization, University of Messina, Via Consolato del Mare, 41, 98100 Messina, Italy)

Abstract

Food contamination with microbial agents can take place at any stage of the food chain, from farm to fork. For this reason, good hygienic and manufacturing practices must be followed along the entire food chain to prevent microbiological food contamination due to microbes which can cause high incidence of morbidity and mortality among consumers. Recent research have been focused on the implementation of innovative technologies for enhancing the quality and safety of food without compromising its organoleptic and nutritional characteristics. Studies should be addressed to the development of simple, less expensive, and fast tests for monitoring and controlling microbial food contamination, as well as to the development of new food manufacturing processes.

Suggested Citation

  • Alessia Tropea, 2022. "Microbial Contamination and Public Health: An Overview," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(12), pages 1-5, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:19:y:2022:i:12:p:7441-:d:841286
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/19/12/7441/pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/19/12/7441/
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Cainara Lins Draeger & Rita De Cassia Coelho de Almeida Akutsu & Wilma Maria Coelho Araújo & Izabel Cristina Rodrigues Da Silva & Raquel Braz Assunção Botelho & Renata Puppin Zandonadi, 2018. "Epidemiological Surveillance System on Foodborne Diseases in Brazil after 10-Years of Its Implementation: Completeness Evaluation," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 15(10), pages 1-9, October.
    2. Vincent Tesson & Michel Federighi & Enda Cummins & Juliana de Oliveira Mota & Sandrine Guillou & Géraldine Boué, 2020. "A Systematic Review of Beef Meat Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment Models," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(3), pages 1-28, January.
    3. Adenilma da Silva Farias & Rita de Cassia Coelho de Almeida Akutsu & Raquel Braz Assunção Botelho & Renata Puppin Zandonadi, 2019. "Good Practices in Home Kitchens: Construction and Validation of an Instrument for Household Food-Borne Disease Assessment and Prevention," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 16(6), pages 1-13, March.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Daniele Pattono & Matteo Petey & Anna Maria Covarino & Marta Gea & Tiziana Schilirò, 2023. "Training for Food Handlers at Production Level in Italian Regions," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 20(3), pages 1-9, January.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Ewen Todd, 2020. "Food-Borne Disease Prevention and Risk Assessment," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(14), pages 1-13, July.
    2. Adenilma da Silva Farias & Rita de Cassia Coelho de Almeida Akutsu & Raquel Braz Assunção Botelho & Wilma Maria Coelho Araújo & Izabel Cristina Silva & Karin Eleonora Sávio & Renata Puppin Zandonadi, 2020. "Food Safety Conditions in Home-Kitchens: A Cross-Sectional Study in the Federal District/Brazil," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(13), pages 1-12, July.
    3. André Ndereyimana & Michela Contò & Antonella Chiariotti & Gianluca Renzi & Sebastiana Failla, 2024. "Beef Carcasses Aged at Mild Temperature to Improve Sustainability of Meat Production," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 16(22), pages 1-21, November.
    4. Adenilma da Silva Farias & Rita de Cassia Coelho de Almeida Akutsu & Raquel Braz Assunção Botelho & Renata Puppin Zandonadi, 2019. "Good Practices in Home Kitchens: Construction and Validation of an Instrument for Household Food-Borne Disease Assessment and Prevention," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 16(6), pages 1-13, March.
    5. Lígia Isoni Auad & Verônica Cortez Ginani & Eliana Dos Santos Leandro & Priscila Farage & Aline Costa Santos Nunes & Renata Puppin Zandonadi, 2018. "Development of a Brazilian Food Truck Risk Assessment Instrument," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 15(12), pages 1-11, November.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:19:y:2022:i:12:p:7441-:d:841286. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: MDPI Indexing Manager (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.mdpi.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.