The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) recently updated its list of qualified presumption of safety (QPS) -recommended microbiological agents intentionally added to food or feed. QPS is a regularly updated generic pre-valuation of the safety of microorganisms based on an assessment of published data for each agent.
Listen now to Session 16 from the 2019 Food Safety Summit
July 10, 2019
This session will identify what conditions contribute to making pathogens more difficult to inactivate; and current and emerging best practices for their removal and inactivation.
Food safety professionals have always been faced with “difficult to inactivate” pathogens, most of which have provided the motivation for the historical development of food processing technologies ranging from commercial sterilization to ionizing radiation.