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The health and well-being of food handlers and proper hygiene practices often gets over-looked when push comes to shove in the retail food industry.

One solution to solve biofilm contamination in food processing plants is to inoculate the production environment with probiotic microorganisms proven to be inhibitory to pathogens.

Audits should include the live sampling of heat transfer fluids to ensure the safe processing of foods.

The retail foodservice business must achieve daily active managerial control (AMC) of the risk factors contributing to foodborne illness.  

 HARPC is similar to HACCP in that it points out a need for control when there is a significant hazard.

Controlling Salmonella in beef is more of a challenge than controlling E. coli O157:H7 because Salmonella is prevalent in the animals’ lymph nodes.

The use of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) show great potential for contamination control of fresh-cut produce.

The evolution of food processing technology is examined by considering generalized examples in which process controls that were once good enough have been replaced by new approaches.

In the U.S., between 1983 and 2002, the six most commonly occurring serotypes of non-O157 Escherichia coli were O26, O111, O103, O121, O45 and O145, which have become foodborne pathogens of interest.  

Biofilms are communities of microorganisms that can form on both living and nonliving surfaces, including those found in food processing plants.