Food Microbiology and Biotechnology Safe and Sustainable Food Production

Food Microbiology and Biotechnology: Safe and Sustainable Food Production explores the most important advances in food microbiology and biotechnology, with special emphasis on the challenges that the industry faces in the era of sustainable development and food security problems.

Chapters cover broad research areas that offer original and novel highlights in microbiology and biotechnology and other related sciences. The authors discuss food bioprocesses, fermentation, food microbiology, functional foods, nutraceuticals, extraction of natural products, nano- and micro-technology, innovative processes/bioprocesses for utilization of by-products, alternative processes requiring less energy or water, among other topics. The volume relates some of the current developments in food microbiology that address the relationship between the production, processing, service and consumption of foods and beverages with the bacteriology, mycology, virology, parasitology, and immunology.

Demonstrating the potential and actual developments across the innovative advances in food microbiology and biotechnology, this volume will be of great interest to students, teachers, and researchers in the areas of biotechnology and food microbiology.

Part 1: Food Microbiology 1. Hurdle Technologies for the Control of Microbial Growth in Food 2. Production of Microbiologically Safe Fruits and Vegetables 3. Sustainable Production of Innocuous Seafood 4. Microbiological Quality and Food Safety Challenges in the Meat Industry 5. Fermentation as a Preservation Strategy in Foods 6. Food Preservation Using Plant-Derived Compounds 7. Lactic Acid Bacteria in Preservation and Functional Foods 8. Fermented Milks: Quality Foods with Potential for Human Health 9. Training in Good Safety Practices and Food Manufacturing for Safe Food Production Part 2: Food Biotechnology 10. Production, Recovery, and Application of Invertases and Lipases 11. Recent Advances in the Bioconversion of 2-Phenylethanol through Biotechnological Processes for Using as a Natural Food Additive 12. Natural Antimicrobials from Vegetable By-Products: Extraction, Bioactivity, and Stability 13. Fermentative Bioprocesses for Detoxification of Agri-Food Wastes for Production of Bioactive Compounds 14. Lipids as Components for Formulation of Functional Foods: Recent Trends 15. Milk-Clotting Enzymes: S. elaeagnifolium as an Alternative Source 16. Pomegranate (Punica granatum L.) Nutritional and Functional Properties 17. Biomass Fractionation to Bio-Based Products in Terms of Biorefinery Concept

Guadalupe Virginia Nevárez-Moorillón, PhD, is a bacteriological chemist. She has been a full time Professor at the School of Chemical Sciences, Autonomous University of Chihuahua, Mexico, for the last 30 years.

Arely Prado-Barragan, PhD, is a Research Professor at Autonomous Metropolitan University, Iztapalapa Campus (UAMI), Mexico, where she is a member of the research group in solid-state fermentation of the Department of Biotechnology.

José Luis Martínez-Hernández, PhD, is a Research Scientist and Full Professor at the School of Chemistry, Autonomous University of Coahuila (UAdeC), Mexico.

Cristobal N. Aguilar, PhD, is Full Professor and Dean of the School of Chemistry at the Autonomous University of Coahuila, México.